Kachalsky v. Cacace’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 4 district ·

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

1. “[T]he Heller Court considered concealed firearms prohibitions to be presumptively constitutional under the Second Amendment.”). 10 . BPD has denied firearms applications in other instances upon a determination that applicants answered the general form untruthfully, denied applications upon a determination that sworn BPD officers answered the G 13-S form untruthfully, and revoked licenses for both reasons. 11 . The licensing authority is empowered to make a variety of inquiries concerning license applicants. See Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 140, § 131 (e). 12 . See, e.g., D.C.Code § 7-2507.04(a) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hightower v. City of Boston

2. “seem not to be premised on the existence of open carry provisions specifically, but rather on the existence of provisions for some other means of carry generally; in other words, they suggest that such statutes would fail to pass muster only if functioning as complete bans to carrying weapons outside the home under any circumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 840 F. Supp. 2d 813 - Piszczatoski v. Filko

3. “Standing and ripeness are closely related doctrines that overlap most notably in the shared requirement that the plaintiff's injury be imminent rather than conjectural or hypothetical.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Doe v. Putnam Cnty.