Kuck v. Danaher’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions

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

1. “The Maryland statute’s failure lies in the overly broad means by which it seeks to advance this undoubtedly legitimate end. . The requirement that a permit applicant demonstrate “good and substantial reason” to carry a handgun does not, for example, advance the interest of public safety because ensuring that guns are kept out of the hands of those adjudged most likely to misuse them, such as criminals or the mentally ill. It does not ban handguns from places where the possibility of mayhem is most acute.... It does not attempt to reduce accidents.... It does not even, as some other States’ laws do, limit the carrying of handguns to persons deemed “suitable” by denying a permit to anyone “whose conduct indicates that he or she is potentially a danger to the public if entrusted with a handgun.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Caba v. Weaknecht

2. “General authority to enforce the laws of the state is not sufficient to make government officials the proper parties to litigation challenging the law. Holding that a state official's obligation to execute the laws is a sufficient connection to the enforcement of a challenged statute would extend Young beyond what the Supreme Court has intended and held.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nassau & Suffolk Cnty. Taxi Owners Ass'n, Inc. v. State

3. “[t]he fact that the state officer, by virtue of his office, has some connection with the enforcement of the act, is the important and material fact, and whether it arises out of the general law, or is specially created by the act itself, is not material so long as it exists.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nassau & Suffolk Cnty. Taxi Owners Ass'n, Inc. v. State