Gould v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
907 F.3d 659 · 2018
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Payton v. New York · United States v. Salerno · Ward v. Rock Against Racism · District of Columbia v. Heller · Stanley v. Georgia
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Id. at 671 . Given this understanding, we concluded that the law challenged in Gould (which concerned public carriage of firearms) fell outside the core of the Second Amendment right. See id. at 672 . In contrast to the plaintiffs in Gould , the present plaintiffs contend that the Act affects their ability to defend themselves in their homes. Assuming (favorably to the plaintiffs) that the Act implicates the core of the Second Amendment right, we must train the lens of our inquiry on”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Worman v. Healey“burdens conduct falling within the scope of the Second Amendment, [we] then must determine what level of scrutiny is appropriate and must proceed to decide whether the challenged law survives that level of scrutiny.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Worman v. Healey
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.