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← 6 A3D 1237 - Herrington v. United States

Herrington v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
4
states following
April 2019
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Johnson v. United States · United States v. Salerno · Patterson v. New York · Washington v. Glucksberg

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[a] UA conviction ... may be based solely on proof that the defendant possessed handgun ammunition in his home — solely, that is, on proof of conduct protected by the Second Amendment” as articulated in Heller — we held that”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the Second Amendment guarantees a right to possess ammunition in the home that is coextensive with the right to possess a usable handgun there.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “that the defendant possessed ammunition, and that he did so knowingly and intentionally.”
    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.