United States v. Clegg’s Empirical Analysis
846 F.2d 1221 · 1988
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2008 · most notably United States v. Miller (1989), United States v. Baptista-Rodriguez (1994)
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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) · 22 U.S.C. § 2778
Relies on Cox v. State of Louisiana · Raley v. Ohio · United States v. International Minerals & Chemical Corp. · United States v. Duggan · United States v. Tallmadge
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whatever our disagreements may be with the court's ruling in Tallmadge, see, e.g., at 775-82 (Kozinski, J., dissenting), it is the law of the Circuit and we are bound to follow it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In each of these [cited cases], it is clear that the actor actually relied on an official statement that certain conduct was not unlawful”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Tallmadge testified that [the firearms dealer] agreed that there was no problem owning a gun because the felony conviction had been reduced to a misdemeanor.”
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.