United States v. Singleton’s Empirical Analysis
759 F.2d 176 · 1985
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2018
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 28 U.S.C. § 294
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Simmons v. United States · Chimel v. California · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“decided by necessary implication as well as those decided explicitly.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[D]icta is not part of the law of the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“is a rule of practice whereby 'courts generally ... refuse to reopen what has been decided.' " Singleton , 759 F.2d at 178 (quoting Messenger v. Anderson , 225 U.S. 436 , 444, 32 S.Ct. 739 , 56 L.Ed. 1152 (1912) ). "It is predicated on the premise that ... it would be impossible for an appellate court to perform its duties satisfactorily and efficiently and expeditiously if a question, once considered and decided by it[,] were to be litigated anew in the same case upon any and every subsequent appeal.”
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.