United States v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.3d 435 · 2013
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 26 U.S.C. § 5845 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Begay v. United States · James v. United States · Chambers v. United States · 153 Wis. 2d 493 - State v. Poellinger · Sykes v. United States
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“People do not shorten their shotguns to hunt or shoot skeet. Instead, the shortened barrel makes the guns easier to conceal and increases the spread of the shot when firing at close range — facts that spurred Congress to require the registration of all sawed-off shotguns, along with other dangerous weapons like bazookas, mortars, pipe bombs, and machine guns. 721 F.3d 435, 442 (7th Cir. 2013) (quoting United States v. Upton, 512 F.3d 394, 404 (7th Cir.2008); see also United States v. Shaw, 670 F.3d 360, 368-69 (1st Cir.2012) (Boudin, J., concurring)) (“Sawed-off shotguns are notoriously associated not with hunting but with crime.”).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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