United States v. Gateward’s Empirical Analysis
84 F.3d 670 · 1996
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2026 · most notably United States v. Dorris (2000), United States of America v. Jamaal Adeem Atif Singletary (2001)
26 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2119 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on United States v. Lopez · United States v. Bass · Scarborough v. United States · Great State Beverages, Inc. v. Wenners · Turner v. Brown
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contains no jurisdictional element which would ensure, thorough case-by-case inquiry, that the firearm possession in question affects interstate commerce.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not understand Lopez to undercut the Bass/Scarborough proposition that the jurisdictional element `in or affecting commerce' keeps the felon firearm law well inside the constitutional fringes of the Commerce Clause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“predecessor statute to S 922(g)(1)[ ] made any felon `who receives, possesses, or transports in commerce or affecting commerce... any firearm' guilty of a federal offense.”
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.