Bonfiglio v. Hodden’s Empirical Analysis
770 F.2d 301 · 1985
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2004
7 federal appellate · 3 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 751 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Lewis v. United States · Roberts v. United States · Dickerson v. New Banner Institute, Inc. · Sullivan v. United States · Barrett 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We draw from Lewis the principle that a conviction for violating § 922(h)(1) [of the Gun Control Act] is not subject to attack on the ground that a predicate conviction is subsequently reversed, vacated or modified. Rather, as stated by the court, it is up to the defendant to clear his status before buying a weapon.”
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.