United States v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
989 F.2d 24 · 1993
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2020 · most notably United States v. Soto-Beníquez (2003), Estate of Bennett v. Wainwright (2008)
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 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. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Sedillo v. United States · United States v. Santana
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he most important element [was] that the police had reason to believe that [the defendant] had a sawed-off shotgun nearby, which had been used only shortly before to threaten [the victim],”
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.