Plummer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
24
cited by 24 later decisions
2
states following
March 2018
most recently cited
23 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Salerno · California v. Hodari D. · Alabama v. White · Washington v. Glucksberg
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]othing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]o person shall carry within the District of Columbia either openly or concealed on or about their person, a pistol, without a license issued pursuant to District of Columbia law....” In Heller , the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“years before the Supreme Court's decision in Heller "). We acknowledged in Plummer that the statutory scheme that existed before Heller amounted to an "absolute prohibition on [Plummer's] application for a registration certificate,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.