People v. . Persce’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Matter of Case (1915), City of Seattle v. Montana (1996)
6 federal appellate · 61 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 Lawton v. Steele · Presser v. State of Illinois · People Ex Rel. Hegeman v. . Corrigan · People v. . Werner · People v. . Abeel
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The act in Question relates to instruments which are ordinarily used for criminal and improper purposes and which are not among those ordinary legitimate weapons of defense and protection which are contemplated by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The provision in the Constitution of the United States that `the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed' is not designed to control legislation by the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bach v. Pataki“within the immediate control and reach of the accused, and where it is available for unlawful use if he so desires.”
1 later decision 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.