United States v. Rahimi Revisions: 6/25/24’s Empirical Analysis
2024
Citation profile
2 district · 84 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Batson v. Kentucky · Crawford v. Washington · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al.
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f laws at the founding regulated firearm use to address particular problems, that will be a strong indicator that contemporary laws imposing similar restrictions for similar reasons fall within a permissible category of regulations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Capen v. Campbell“[T]he Second Amendment permits more than just those regulations identical to ones that could be found in 1791. Holding otherwise would be as mistaken as applying the protections of the right only to muskets and sabers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Capen v. Campbell“never established a categorical rule that the Constitution prohibits regulations that forbid firearm possession in the home.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Capen v. Campbell
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.