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New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen’s Empirical Analysis

2022

Citation profile

505
cited by 505 later decisions
6
cited 6 times by the Supreme Court
17
states following
June 2026
most recently cited

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.

  1. “consistent with this Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “consistent with the nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[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.