United States v. Schoolcraft’s Empirical Analysis
879 F.2d 64 · 1989
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 12 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably United States v. Voigt (1996), United States v. Raymer (1991)
71 federal appellate · 12 district · 5 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. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Glasser v. United States · Griffith v. Kentucky · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Bordenkircher v. Hayes
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the conscious exercise of some selectivity in enforcement is not in itself a federal constitutional violation' so long as 'the selection was [not] deliberately based upon an unjustifiable standard such as race, religion, or other arbitrary classification.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“committed on occasions different from one another.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“must provide evidence that persons similarly situated have not been prosecuted.”
3 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.