McDonald v. City of Chicago’s Empirical Analysis
561 U.S. 742 · 2010
Citation profile
384 federal appellate · 147 district · 742 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Barker v. Wingo · Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. Leon
Cited together with District of Columbia v. Heller · United States v. Salerno · United States v. Miller · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · United States v. Marzzarella
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 1,918 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.”
61 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“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.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the right of law-abiding, responsible citizens to use arms in defense of hearth and home”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Gould v. Morgan · Hatfield v. Barr
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.