United States v. Ware’s Empirical Analysis
914 F.2d 997 · 1990
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably United States v. DeMasi (1994), United States v. James (1994)
26 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 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on United States v. Ross · Texas v. Brown · United States v. Jacobsen · Cady v. Dombrowski · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is no legitimate expectation of privacy, shielding that portion of the interior of an automobile which may be viewed from outside the vehicle by either inquisitive passersby or diligent police officers.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]xperts in the field of firearms identification rely on [markings on the firearm, ATF publications and lists, and firearms trade books and other reference materials] with regard to the issue of interstate transportation of firearms and such reliance is reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonably relied upon by experts in the particular field in forming opinions or inferences upon the subject.”
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.