Oefinger v. Zimmerman’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2000
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 923 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 18 U.S.C. § 927 · 26 U.S.C. § 5801 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5812 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5821 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Imbler v. Pachtman · Griffin v. Breckenridge · Hines v. Davidowitz · Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No provision of this chapter shall be construed as indicating an intent on the part of the Congress to occupy the field in which such provision operates to the exclusion of the law of any State on the same subject matter, unless there is a direct and positive conflict between such provision and the law of the State so that the two cannot be reconciled or consistently stand together.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he legislative history of the Gun Control Act indicates that its principal purpose is to strengthen Federal controls and `to assist the States effectively to regulate firearms within their borders.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of the federal enactment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.