Masters v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 2021
4 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 United States v. Cruikshank · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · United States v. Miller · Robertson v. Baldwin · Presser v. State of Illinois
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Collins] argues, however, that under our present Constitution and the amendments thereto the Legislature is restricted to the regulation of the wearing of arms, and therefore, a penal law regulating the carrying about the person of a pistol is proscribed by the Constitution, Article I, § 23. ****** We hold that article 483, which makes it unlawful to “carry on or about his person ... any pistol ...” is not violative of the constitutional right of every citizen to keep and bear arms in the lawful defense of himself or the state, the Legislature having the power by law to enact such law with a view to prevent crime. (Citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Williams
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.