United States v. Rene E.’s Empirical Analysis
583 F.3d 8 · 2009
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 14 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably United States v. Marzzarella (2010), Heller v. District of Columbia (2011)
26 federal appellate · 14 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 18 U.S.C. § 5032 · 18 U.S.C. § 5037 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on United States v. Lopez · Spencer v. Kemna · Weinstein v. Bradford · District of Columbia v. Heller · Wickard v. Filburn
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed weapons, (2) laws prohibiting the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, (3) laws prohibiting the carrying of firearms 'in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings,' (4) laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms, and (5) laws prohibiting the carrying of 'dangerous and unusual weapons.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a view, from at least the Civil War period, that regulating juvenile access to handguns . . . did not offend constitutional guarantees of the right to keep and bear arms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sieyes“right to arms does not preclude laws disarming the unvirtuous (i.e. criminals) or those who, like children or the mentally imbalanced, are deemed incapable of virtue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Medina v. Whitaker
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.