Lopez v. Chewiwie’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2021
14 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 Ritter v. Albuquerque Gas & Electric Co. · Dickens v. Barnham · Charlton v. Jackson · Parman ex rel. Parman v. Lemmon · Hagerty v. Powers
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fathers of our republic believed that a well-regulated militia was necessary to the security of a free state, and that the right of the people to keep and bear arms should never be infringed. Have we ceased to believe that doctrine? I refer to this, not because it is a provision of the federal constitution and restricts the power of Congress over this subject, but because it is a basic principle of statecraft of deep concern to all who are clothed with authority and who feel their responsibility to hand on undiminished to future generations those liberties which are our proud American heritage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We think the better rule is that absent knowledge on the part of the parent that a child of the age of the one involved here is indiscreet or reckless in the handling of firearms, that the mere keeping of a loaded gun on the premises and leaving the boy there alone, does not make the parent liable for torts committed by the minor. See Hagerty v. Powers, 66 Cal. 368 , 5 P. 622 , 56 Am.Rep. 101 ; Lacker v. Ewald, 11 Ohio Dec. 337 ; Swanson v. Crandall, 2 Pa. Super. 85 ; Frellesen v. Colburn, 156 Misc. 254 , 281 N.Y.S. 471 , and Parman v. Lemmon, supra.”
1 later decision 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.