Medina v. Whitaker’s Empirical Analysis
913 F.3d 152 · 2019
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1014 · 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 925 · 28 U.S.C. § 1865
Relies on District of Columbia v. Heller · Jordan v. De George · McDonald v. City of Chicago · Baze v. Rees · Richardson v. Ramirez
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]sing an amorphous 'dangerousness' standard to delineate the scope of the Second Amendment would require the government to make case-by-case predictive judgments before barring the possession of weapons”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Kanter v. Barr“[w]hen the legislature designates a crime as a felony, it signals to the world the highest degree of societal condemnation for the act, a condemnation that a misdemeanor does not convey.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Miller v. Sessions“[T]he right to arms does not preclude laws disarming the unvirtuous citizens (i.e., criminals) or those who, like children or the mentally unbalanced, are deemed incapable of virtue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Kanter v. Barr
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.