State v. Vlacil’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2011
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
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
Relies on Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Hines v. Davidowitz · Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The individual right of the people to keep and bear arms for security and defense of self, family, others, property, or the state, as well as for other lawful purposes shall not be infringed; but nothing herein shall prevent the legislature from defining the lawful use of arms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Archambeau“quite evident ... that the Legislature had sufficient power to enact the statute in question” (emphasis added)). In fact, the legislative power to regulate firearms arises from article VI, section 1 of the Utah Constitution, which vests in the legislature the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The people have the right to bear arms for their security and defense, but the Legislature may regulate the exercise of this right by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Archambeau
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.