85 Cited authorities

  1. Ashcroft v. Iqbal

    556 U.S. 662 (2009)   Cited 254,033 times   279 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a claim is plausible where a plaintiff's allegations enable the court to draw a "reasonable inference" the defendant is liable
  2. Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly

    550 U.S. 544 (2007)   Cited 267,838 times   366 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a complaint's allegations should "contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to 'state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face' "
  3. Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.

    477 U.S. 242 (1986)   Cited 236,673 times   38 Legal Analyses
    Holding that summary judgment is not appropriate if "the dispute about a material fact is ‘genuine,’ that is, if the evidence is such that a reasonable jury could return a verdict for the nonmoving party"
  4. Lujan v. Defs. of Wildlife

    504 U.S. 555 (1992)   Cited 27,960 times   138 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the elements of standing "must be supported in the same way as any other matter on which the plaintiff bears the burden of proof"
  5. Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Res. Def. Council

    467 U.S. 837 (1984)   Cited 16,032 times   504 Legal Analyses
    Holding that courts "must give effect to the unambiguously expressed intent of Congress"
  6. Johnson v. U.S.

    559 U.S. 133 (2010)   Cited 2,751 times   14 Legal Analyses
    Holding that 18 U.S.C. § 924(e) ’s nearly identical "physical force" clause "means violent force—that is, force capable of causing physical pain or injury to another person"
  7. McDonald v. City of Chicago

    561 U.S. 742 (2010)   Cited 2,314 times   21 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the Second Amendment applies to the states, through incorporation under the Fourteenth Amendment
  8. United States v. Salerno

    481 U.S. 739 (1987)   Cited 5,427 times   15 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "extensive safeguards" are necessary "to repel a facial challenge"
  9. Allen v. Wright

    468 U.S. 737 (1984)   Cited 4,769 times   9 Legal Analyses
    Holding that, even when plaintiffs allege "one of the most serious injuries recognized in our legal system," it's not justiciable where "the chain of causation between the challenged Government conduct and the asserted injury are far too weak for the chain as a whole to sustain respondents' standing"
  10. Wash. State Grange v. Wa. State Repub. Party

    552 U.S. 442 (2008)   Cited 1,256 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that courts should neither "anticipate a question of constitutional law in advance of the necessity of deciding it" nor "formulate a rule of constitutional law broader than is required by the precise facts to which it is to be applied"
  11. Rule 12 - Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions; Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 12   Cited 347,250 times   923 Legal Analyses
    Granting the court discretion to exclude matters outside the pleadings presented to the court in defense of a motion to dismiss
  12. Section 922 - Unlawful acts

    18 U.S.C. § 922   Cited 60,634 times   182 Legal Analyses
    Finding that "even before the sale of a firearm, the gun, its component parts, ammunition, and the raw materials from which they are made have considerably moved in interstate commerce"
  13. Section 921 - Definitions

    18 U.S.C. § 921   Cited 4,085 times   36 Legal Analyses
    Adopting this definition
  14. Section 2.4 - Weapons, traps and nets

    36 C.F.R. § 2.4   Cited 45 times
    Possessing a loaded handgun in a motor vehicle within a national park area