United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
117 F.3d 1265 · 1997
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2012 · most notably District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), United States of America v. Timothy Joe Emerson (2001)
45 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on United States v. Lopez · United States v. Bass · Hodel v. Virginia Surface Mining & Reclamation Assn., Inc. · JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB · New York v. United States
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a ‘shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length’ at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“legislative findings connecting the regulated activity to interstate commerce.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), it shall be unlawful for any person to transfer or possess a machine gun. (2) This subsection does not apply with respect to— (A) a transfer to or by, or possession by or under the authority of, the United States or any department or agency thereof or a State, or a department, agency, or political subdivision thereof; or (B) any lawful transfer or lawful possession of a machine gun that was lawfully possessed before the date this subsection takes effect.”
2 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.