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919 F.3d 437 · 2019

Citation profile

81
cited by 81 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
8
states following
June 2026
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 21 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1621 · 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 · 21 U.S.C. § 676

Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · District of Columbia v. Heller · Harrington v. Richter · McDonald v. City of Chicago

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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Don B. Kates & Clayton E. Cramer, Second Amendment Limitations and Criminological Considerations, 60 Hastings L.J. 1339 , 1362 (2009). Additionally,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “At early common law, the term 'felon' applied only to a few very serious, very dangerous offenses such as murder, rape, arson, and robbery.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.