United States v. Bramer’s Empirical Analysis
832 F.3d 908 · 2016
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2025
2 federal appellate · 3 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)
Relies on United States v. Salerno · 135 S. Ct. 2551 - Johnson v. United States · Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project · Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project · Herships v. California
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term "unlawful user of a controlled substance" contemplates the regular and repeated use of a controlled substance in a manner other than as prescribed by a licensed physician. The one time or infrequent use of a controlled substance is not sufficient to establish the defendant as an "unlawful user." Rather, the defendant must have been engaged in use that was sufficiently consistent and prolonged as to constitute a pattern of regular and repeated use of a controlled substance. The government need not show that defendant used a controlled substance at the precise time he possessed a firearm. It must, however, establish that he was engaged in a pattern of regular and repeated use of a controlled substance during a period that reasonably covers the time a firearm was possessed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“need not prove that § 922(g)(3) is vague in all its applications, ... case law still requires him to show that the statute is vague as applied to his particular conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“clarified that a vague criminal statute is not constitutional 'merely because there is some conduct that falls within the provision's grasp,”
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.