Wilson v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
835 F.3d 1083 · 2016
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 812 (§ 202 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Warth v. Seldin · United States v. O'Brien · Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he first step in equal protection analysis is to identify the [government's] classification of groups,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“only the sale of firearms to Wilson - not her possession of firearms”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.