State v. Workman’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010), United States v. Miller (1939)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 17 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 Late Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. United States · State v. Cain · State v. Evans · Osburn v. Staley · State v. . Roten
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he first 10 amendments to the constitution, commonly known as the “Bill of Rights,” were not intended to lay down any novel principles of government, but simply to embody certain guaranties and immunities which we had inherited from our English ancestors, and which had, from time immemorial, been subject to certain well-recognized exceptions, arising from the necessities of the case. In incorporating these principles into the fundamental law, there was no intention of disregarding the exceptions, which continued to be recognized as if they had ■ been formally expressed. Thus ... the right of the people to keep and bear arms (article 2) is not infringed by laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed weapons[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]n regard to the kind of arms referred to in the amendment, it must be held to refer to the weapons of warfare to be used by the militia, such as swords, guns, rifles, and muskets, — arms to be used in defending the state and civil liberty, — and not to pistols, bowie-knife, brass knuckles, billies, and such other weapons as are usually employed in brawls, street fights, duels, and affrays, and are only habitually carried by bullies, blackguards, and desperadoes, to the terror of the community and the injury of the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when a man is found going around with a revolver, razor, billy, or brass knuckles upon his person”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Young v. Hawaii
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.