United States v. Rush’s Empirical Analysis
840 F.2d 580 · 1988
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently June 2004 · most notably United States v. Towne (1989), United States v. Buggs (1990)
47 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1202
Relies on Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Crenshaw · Brown v. Chaney · United States v. Gourley · United States v. Viera
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is the criminal episodes underlying the convictions, not the dates of conviction, that must be distinct to trigger the provisions of the [Armed Career Criminal Act],”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any weapon ... which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive.”
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.