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United States v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis

928 F.3d 855 · 2019

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
February 2025
most recently cited

1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3231 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291

Relies on Anders v. California · Brady v. State of Maryland · Apprendi v. New Jersey · District of Columbia v. Heller · United States v. Armstrong

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

  1. “We made it clear in Heller that our holding did not cast doubt on such longstanding regulatory measures as 'prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill' . . . . We repeat those assurances here.”
    1 later decision 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.