United States of America v. Timothy Joe Emerson’s Empirical Analysis
270 F.3d 203 · 2001
Citation profile
93 federal appellate · 12 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 186 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), United States v. Scroggins (2010)
93 federal appellate · 12 district · 18 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 Duncan v. State of Louisiana · United States v. Lopez · United States v. Turkette · Russello v. United States · Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey
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 186 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a preliminary injunction will not be issued simply to prevent the possibility of some remote future injury. A presently existing actual threat must be shown. However, the injury need not have been inflicted when application is made or be certain to occur; a strong threat of irreparable injury before trial is an adequate basis.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not to join Section V, which concludes that the right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment is an individual right, because it is dicta and is therefore not binding on us or on tuny other court.... The fact that the 84 pages of dicta contained in Section V are interesting, scholarly, and well written does not change the fact that they are dicta and amount to at best an advisory treatise on this long-running debate .... No doubt the special interests and academics on both sides of this debate will take great interest in the fact that at long last some court has determined (albeit in dicta) that the Second Amendment bestows an individual right.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As these holdings [Cruikshank, Presser and Miller ] all came well before the Supreme Court began the process of incorporating certain provisions of the first eight amendments into the Due Process Clause ■ of the Fourteenth Amendment, and as they ultimately rest on a rationale equally applicable to all those amendments, none of them establishes any principle governing any of the issues now before us.”
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.