United States v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.3d 1101 · 1996
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably United States v. Dorris (2000), United States v. Chesney (1996)
74 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on United States v. Lopez · United States v. Bass · Doerr v. Doerr · Illinois v. Vitale · Payless Wholesale Distributor, Inc. v. Albert Culver (P.R.) Inc.
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the constitutionality of using [a defendant's] prior felony convictions both to establish his substantive offense under section 922(g)(1) and to enhance his sentence under section 924(e)(1)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Section 922(g)'s requirement that the firearm have been, at some time, in interstate commerce is sufficient to establish its constitutionality under the Commerce Clause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is not our function as a reviewing court to reverse based on a recognition of alternate possibilities.”
2 later decisions 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.