Cases v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
131 F.2d 916 · 1942
Citation profile
76 federal appellate · 12 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably United States of America v. Timothy Joe Emerson (2001), BURTON v. Sills (1968)
76 federal appellate · 12 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 17 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 United States v. Cruikshank · Dent v. State of West Virginia · Atlantic Cleaners & Dyers, Inc. v. United States · Truax v. Corrigan · Ex parte Garland
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““# * * In the Act Congress sought to protect the public by preventing the transportation and possession of firearms and ammunition by those who, by their past conduct, had demonstrated their unfitness to be entrusted with such dangerous instrumentalities * *”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... if the past conduct which is made the test of the right to engage in some activity in the future is not the kind of conduct which indicates unfitness in the activity, it will be assumed, as it must be, that the purpose of the statute is to impose an additional penalty for the past conduct. If, however, the past conduct can reasonably be said to indicate unfitness to engage in the future activity the assumption will be otherwise.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he only function of the Second Amendment [is] to prevent the federal government and the federal government only from infringing that right.”
3 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.