State v. Heald’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Rehaif v. United States (2019), Whack v. State (1995)
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Oyler v. Boles · Wingo v. Wedding · Rowell v. United States · John McDonald v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Central Railroad v. Pennsylvania
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defense of discriminatory prosecution consists of two basic elements: (1) other individuals similarly situated have not been prosecuted for comparable criminal conduct, and (2) the selective enforcement was deliberately made on an impermissible and unjustifiable standard such as race, religion, a desire to discourage the exercise of one’s constitutional rights or other invidious criteria.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““for any person who has been convicted of a felony under the laws of the United States or of the State of Maine, or of any other state, to have in his possession any pistol, revolver or any other firearm capable of being concealed upon the person.” (Emphasis added)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gwinn · State v. Millett“[A] reasonable prosecutorial discretion in the enforcement of criminal laws is inherent in our criminal justice system ....”
2 later decisions 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.