United States v. Blannon’s Empirical Analysis
836 F.2d 843 · 1988
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably United States v. Bland (1992), United States v. Schoolcraft (1989)
55 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1202
Relies on Bifulco v. United States · United States v. Hawkins · United States v. Gregg · United States v. Davis · United States v. Norris
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court may not manufacture an ambiguity in order to defeat Congress' intent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]y implication, the maximum penalty under the ACCA is life imprisonment.”
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.