United States v. Etheridge’s Empirical Analysis
932 F.2d 318 · 1991
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably United States v. Brebner (1991), United States v. Presley (1995)
43 federal appellate · 1 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 · 18 U.S.C. § 925
Relies on Solem v. Helm · Cox v. State of Louisiana · Beazell v. State of Ohio Chatfield · Dickerson v. New Banner Institute, Inc. · Darden v. Wainwright
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would penalize the wrong government--the government that prosecuted appellant rather than the government that mistakenly and misleadingly interpreted the law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year ..., that (i) has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another; or (ii) is burglary [or] arson.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the case of a person who violates Section 922(g) of this title and has three previous convictions by any court referred to in section 922(g)(1) of this title for a violent felony ..., such person shall be ... imprisoned not less than fifteen years ...”
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.