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United States v. Spence’s Empirical Analysis

721 F.3d 1224 · 2013

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
April 2025
most recently cited

3 federal appellate ·

Appellate journey

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)

Relies on Staples v. United States · United States v. McCane · United States v. Solomon · United States v. Holly · United States v. Jones

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the minimal relevance requirements of Rule 401.”
    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.