United States v. Dahms’s Empirical Analysis
938 F.2d 131 · 1991
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2012 · most notably Caron v. United States (1998), United States v. Driscoll (1992)
97 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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)
Relies on American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Pelaes v. United States · United States v. Sherbondy · United States v. Cassidy
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in accordance with the law of the jurisdiction in which the proceedings were held.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“who has been convicted in any court of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress intended to encompass those [civil] rights accorded to an individual by virtue of his citizenship in a particular state. These rights include the right to vote, the right to seek and hold public office and the right to serve on a jury.”
6 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.