Commonwealth v. Runyan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 14 state decisions

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Under this provision, a person registered to keep a firearm (apart from law enforcement personnel) was prohibited in any circumstance from carrying or keeping a loaded firearm in his or her home. The ordinance prohibited a registered gun owner from keeping even an unloaded firearm in his or her home unless it was disassembled or rendered inoperable by a trigger lock or similar device.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Commonwealth v. McGowan

2. ““Except for law enforcement personnel described in § 7-2502.01(b)(l), each registrant shall keep any firearm in his possession unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock or similar device unless such firearm is kept at his place of business, or while being used for lawful recreational purposes within the District of Columbia.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Commonwealth v. McGowan

3. “does not make it impossible for those persons licensed to possess firearms to rely on them for lawful self-defense”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Williams v. State