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State v. Adrian Hazard’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

23
cited by 23 later decisions
1
states following
March 2025
most recently cited

22 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 5845 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 42 U.S.C. § 12210 (§ 511 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990)

Relies on United States v. Bass · National Ass'n of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife · Barnhart Commissioner of Social Security v. Thomas · Jama v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · United States v. Hayes

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

  1. “In matters of statutory interpretation our ultimate goal is to give effect to the purpose of the act as intended by the Legislature.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[W]e review questions of statutory interpretation de novo .”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[W]hen the language of a statute is clear and unambiguous, this Court must interpret the statute literally and must give the words of the statute their plain and ordinary meanings.”
    3 later decisions 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.