Petersen v. Bruen’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 8 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Orr v. Bank of America, NT & SA (2002), S.V. v. R.V. (1996)
8 federal appellate · 8 district · 78 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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
Relies on Order of Railroad Telegraphers v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Chase Securities Corp. v. Donaldson · Raymond v. Eli Lilly & Co. · DeRose v. Carswell · 107 Wash. 2d 72 - Tyson v. Tyson
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the wrong occurs and a party sustains injuries for which relief could be sought.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“to promote justice by preventing surprises through the revival of claims that have been allowed to slumber until evidence has been lost, memories have faded, and witnesses have disappeared”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n those instances where the fact of abuse is clearly and convincingly corroborated, we perceive no compelling need or policy which justifies the intervention of a period of limitations to eliminate the right of [child sexual abuse] victims to seek recovery against their abusers.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.