transports
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 404 U.S. 336 - United States v. Bass · 1971Most cited · 3,812 citing opinions
the act of 'causing a firearm to be transported,' and therefore would connote an offense separate in some cases from 'receives' or 'possesses.' From this, the Government argues that 'Congress might have felt that the broader scope of the term 'transports,' as compared to the terms 'receives' or 'possesses,' justified its qualification by the interstate commerce requirement.' Brief for the United States 14—15.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “transports” — 3,803 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.