United States v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
885 F.2d 1248 · 1989
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2021 · most notably Staples v. United States (1994), United States v. Harris (1992)
75 federal appellate · 1 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) · 26 U.S.C. § 5 · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 28 U.S.C. § 1821 · 28 U.S.C. § 371 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Morissette v. United States · Patterson v. McLean Credit Union · Rodriguez De Quijas v. Shearson/American Express, Inc.
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think it far too severe for our community to bear — and plainly not intended by Congress — to subject to ten years’ imprisonment one who- possesses what appears to be, and what he innocently and reasonably believes to be, a wholly ordinary and legal pistol merely because it has been, unknown to him, modified to be fully automatic.” Anderson, 885 F.2d at 1254 (footnote omitted).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]he district court erred by instructing that the government need only prove that the defendant knew that the object was a gun. To secure a conviction under the act, the government must prove that the defendant knew that he possessed a dangerous device of a type that would alert one to the likelihood of regulation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“one would hardly be surprised that possession of hand grenades is not an innocent act,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.