McCracken v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2010
1 federal appellate · 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 Cleveland v. Municipality of Anchorage · Harrison v. State · Afcan v. State
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the state has a substantial interest in controlling access to concealable firearms by persons previously convicted of a felony.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McCracken v. Frank · Brant v. State“[the legislature has considerable discretion in creating classifications denoting which former felons can possess a firearm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. LAPITRE v. State“is a reasonable and rational attempt to achieve the statutory goal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCracken v. Frank
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.