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564 F.2d 384 · 1977

Citation profile

73
cited by 73 later decisions
7
states following
December 2021
most recently cited

48 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably United States of America v. Timothy Joe Emerson (2001), United States v. Griley (1987)

48 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 state decisions

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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 Katz v. United States · Hoffa v. United States · Lewis v. United States · Weatherford v. Bursey · 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The purpose of the second amendment as stated by the Supreme Court in United States v. Miller . . . was to preserve the effectiveness and assure the continuation of the state militia. The Court stated that the amendment must be interpreted and applied with that purpose in view.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “an apparently nongovernmental organization. We conclude, therefore, that this prosecution did not violate the second amendment. 18 Id. at 387 (citations omitted). 19 Our most recent pronouncement on the Second Amendment is United States v. Baer, 235 F.3d 561 (10th Cir. 2000). In Baer, we rejected a”
    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.