New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen’s Empirical Analysis
2022
Citation profile
1 district · 317 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 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)) · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Malloy v. Hogan · Ward v. Rock Against Racism
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 505 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consistent with this Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“consistent with the nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]nalogical reasoning requires only that the government identify a well-established and representative historical analogue, not a historical twin.”
2 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.