Ivan Pena v. Stephen Lindley

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• upholding a firearm-safety restriction because of the deference we owe to “[t]he legislative judgment that preventing cases of accidental discharge outweighs the need for discharging a gun” in the “rare instance” where the safety restriction “disables a gun capable of providing self- defense”
• “Our circuit similarly has strained to interpret the phrase ‘conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.’”
• assuming without deciding that firearm regulations implicate the core right

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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  Ninth Circuit· 2021-11-30· cited 25×
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  Ninth Circuit· 2020-08-14· cited 23×
• Matthew Jones v. Rob Bonta
  Ninth Circuit· 2022-05-11· cited 13×
• Duncan v. Becerra
  S.D. California· 2019-03-29· cited 11×
• Jeffrey Nielsen v. Ryan Thornell
  Ninth Circuit· 2024-05-21· cited 10×
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  Ninth Circuit· 2020-09-10· cited 9×
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  Ninth Circuit· 2025-03-20· cited 7×
• Kelly Ann McDougall v. County of Ventura
  Ninth Circuit· 2022-01-20· cited 2×
• Todd Yukutake v. Anne E. Lopez
  Ninth Circuit· 2025-03-14· cited 2×
• Olympus Spa v. Armstrong
  Ninth Circuit· 2025-05-29· cited 2×
• Tanner Hirschfeld v. ATF
  Fourth Circuit· 2021-07-13
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  Fourth Circuit· 2021-07-15
• Jeffrey Nielsen v. Ryan Thornell
  Ninth Circuit· 2024-07-08
• Commonwealth v. Philip J. Marquis
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• Roe v. Critchfield
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Cites

70 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. Salerno
  Supreme Court· 1987-05-26· cited 5,104×
• District of Columbia v. Heller
  Supreme Court· 2008-06-26· cited 3,086×
• Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1942-03-09· cited 2,706×
• New York v. Ferber
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 2,505×
• Federal Communications Commission v. Beach Communications, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-01· cited 2,387×
• McDonald v. City of Chicago
  Supreme Court· 2010-06-28· cited 2,024×
• Kyllo v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2001-06-11· cited 1,834×
• City of Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-21· cited 1,818×
• Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-11· cited 1,769×
• Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission
  Supreme Court· 1994-08-24· cited 1,695×
• Texas v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-21· cited 1,671×
• Romer v. Evans
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-03· cited 1,427×
• United States v. Stevens
  Supreme Court· 2010-04-20· cited 1,327×
• Gonzales v. Raich
  Supreme Court· 2005-06-06· cited 1,051×
• Ashley Hunt Greenwood v. Federal Aviation Administration
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-06-28· cited 961×
• United States v. Lee
  Supreme Court· 1982-02-23· cited 834×
• Larson v. Valente
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-07· cited 826×
• Maryland v. King
  Supreme Court· 2013-06-03· cited 671×
• Sable Communications of California, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-23· cited 624×
• Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn.
  Supreme Court· 2011-06-27· cited 599×