Miller v. Sessions’s Empirical Analysis
2019
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Brady v. State of Maryland · Elrod v. Burns · Berger v. United States · Marks 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when no single rationale explaining the result enjoys the support of a majority of the Court, its holding 'may be viewed as that position taken by those Members who concurred in the judgments on the narrowest grounds,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Barr
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.