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Moore v. Madigan’s Empirical Analysis

702 F.3d 933 · 2012

Citation profile

152
cited by 152 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
11
states following
February 2026
most recently cited

43 federal appellate · 11 district · 58 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)

Relies on United States v. Salerno · District of Columbia v. Heller · McDonald v. City of Chicago · Kelley v. Johnson · New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann

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

  1. “[r]emarkably, Illinois is the only state that maintains a flat ban on carrying ready-to-use guns outside the home.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[A] person can preserve an undiminished right of self-defense by not entering those places.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “allow the Illinois legislature to craft a new gun law that will impose reasonable limitations, consistent with public safety and the Second Amendment as interpreted in this opinion, on the carrying of guns in public.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.