Silvester v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
843 F.3d 816 · 2016
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on District of Columbia v. Heller · Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham · McDonald v. City of Chicago · United States v. Miller · Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] law that imposes such a severe restriction on [a] core right [of the Amendment] that it 'amounts to a destruction of the ... right,' is unconstitutional under any level of scrutiny.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Young v. Hawaii · Pena v. Lindley“(1) how close the law comes to the core of the Second Amendment right, and (2) the severity of the law's burden on the right.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Young v. Hawaii · Pena v. Lindley“does not implicate a core Second Amendment right, or does not place a substantial burden on the Second Amendment right.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Young v. Hawaii · Pena v. Lindley
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.