United States v. Dombrowski’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 520 · 1989
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2012 · most notably Taylor v. United States (1990), United States v. Gallman (1990)
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Davis v. Alaska · Morissette v. United States · Solem v. Helm · McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Douglas v. Alabama
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence sufficient to support a finding that the matter in question is what its proponent claims”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any felony consisting of entering or remaining surreptitiously within a building' that is property of another with intent to engage in conduct constituting a Federal or State offense.”
2 later decisions 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.