United States v. Cabrera’s Empirical Analysis
786 F.2d 1097 · 1986
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2024
6 federal appellate · 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. § 925
Relies on Lewis v. United States · Dickerson v. New Banner Institute, Inc. · United States v. Garcia · United States v. Davis
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.
“expunction under state law does not alter the historical fact of the conviction, . . . as does positive or 'affirmative action'. . . . [E]xpunction does not alter the legality of the previous conviction and does not signify that the defendant is innocent of the crime to which he pleaded guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hether one is convicted within the language [of a federal statute] is a question of federal law”
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.