Young v. Hawaii’s Empirical Analysis
896 F.3d 1044 · 2018
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Ex Parte: Edward T Young · William Marbury v. James Madison · Washington v. Glucksberg · District of Columbia v. Heller · Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no wearing of Arms is within the meaning of [the Statute of Northampton], unless it be accompanied with such Circumstances as are apt to terrify the People; from whence it seems clearly to follow, That Persons of Quality are in no Danger of Offending against this Statute by wearing common Weapons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“whatever restrains the full and complete exercise of [the right to bear arms], though not an entire destruction of it, is forbidden by the explicit language of the constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“provided for administrative or judicial review of any license denial, ... a safeguard conspicuously absent from Hawaii's laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Gould v. Morgan
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.