Love v. Pepersack’s Empirical Analysis
47 F.3d 120 · 1995
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 12 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Edwards v. City of Goldsboro (1999), Sylvia Development Corp. v. Calvert County (1995)
27 federal appellate · 12 district · 6 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Daniels v. Williams · United States v. Cruikshank · Komen v. Robbins · United States v. Miller
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an absolute check on certain governmental actions notwithstanding the fairness of the procedures”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Second Amendment does not apply to the states,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Second Amendment preserves a collective, rather than individual, right.”
2 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.