United States v. Francis T. Warin, Second Amendment Foundation, Amicus Curiae’s Empirical Analysis
530 F.2d 103 · 1976
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 8 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably United States v. Cassidy (1990), United States of America v. Timothy Joe Emerson (2001)
38 federal appellate · 8 district · 10 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 Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Murdock v. Commonwealth of 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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“applies only to the right of the State to maintain a militia and not to the individual's right to bear arms, there can be no serious claim to any express constitutional right of an individual to possess a firearm. 54 Id. at 106 (quoting Stevens v. United States, 440 F.2d 144 , 149 (6th Cir. 1971)). Even the collective right of the militia is limited to keeping and bearing arms that have”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a "shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length" at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia, we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument.”
3 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.