Schrader v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
704 F.3d 980 · 2013
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
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 · 18 U.S.C. § 925
Relies on United States v. Salerno · District of Columbia v. Heller · Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission · McDonald v. City of Chicago · Spector Motor Service, Inc. v. McLaughlin
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the context of firearm regulation, the legislature is far better equipped than the judiciary to make sensitive public policy judgments (within constitutional limits) concerning the dangers in carrying firearms and the manner to combat those risks.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kanter v. Barr“other courts of appeal have uniformly rejected the argument that the actual sentence imposed is controlling for purposes of triggering the federal firearms ban”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to find Schrader outside the class of law-abiding, responsible citizens whose possession of firearms is, under Heller , protected by the Second Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Medina v. Whitaker
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.