United States v. Capps’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.3d 350 · 1996
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Rehaif v. United States (2019), United States of America v. Darhee Gray McKissick (2000)
43 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Kansas District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Bouie v. City of Columbia · Collins v. Youngblood · Staples v. United States · United States v. X-Citement Video, Inc. · Beecham 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o circuit has extended the knowledge component of [§ 924(a)(2) and § 922(g)(1)] beyond the act of possession itself.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“in or affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“were consistently interpreted not to require proof of defendant's knowledge of ... felony status.” Id. Finally, we observed that the arguments in the two Supreme Court cases were of a different nature than those in Capps, in which Capps essentially argued ignorance of the law, which is an ineffective defense. 2 . The first reason is that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.