Hickman v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
81 F.3d 98 · 1996
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2015 · most notably District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), United States of America v. Timothy Joe Emerson (2001)
35 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 32 U.S.C. § 109 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Warth v. Seldin · Allen v. Wright · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Second Amendment is a right held by the states, and does not protect the possession of a weapon by a private citizen.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In addition to its constitutional components, standing doctrine also includes several `judicially self-imposed' constituents, grounded in comity and prudence.”
1 later decision 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.