United States v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
936 F.2d 352 · 1991
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably United States v. Arzate-Nunez (1994), United States of America v. Don Phillip Deangelo (1994)
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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. § 3501 · 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
Relies on Miller v. Florida · Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · United States v. Gomez · United States v. Bell · United States v. Traxel
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]nly if the jury may have been 'substantially swayed' by improperly-admitted evidence must we reverse the conviction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The restoration of [the defendant's] civil rights by Minnesota upon his discharge from that conviction in 1976 could give him only what Minnesota had the power to give. With respect to firearms, what Minnesota had the power to give was only a narrow right to possess a firearm that was not in or affecting interstate commerce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[any] law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment, than the law annexed to the crime, when committed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Trower
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.