United States v. Ignacio Jimenez-Shilon

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that § 922(g)(5) does not violate the Second Amendment and collecting cases from seven other circuits holding the same
• assuming that “the people” includes unlawfully present aliens but concluding that the right codified by the Second Amendment is a “citizen’s right”
• observing “even . . . dangerous felons and those suffering from mental illness” are “indisputably part of ‘the people’”
• collecting various Framing-era sources that “refer to arms-bearing as a citizen’s right that was closely associated with national fealty and membership in the body politic” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• collecting Founding-era dictionary definitions that pro- vide some support for the Verdugo-Urquidez definition
• collecting Founding-era dictionary definitions that pro- vide some support for the Verdugo-Urquidez definition

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Andre Michael Dubois
  Eleventh Circuit· 2024-03-05· cited 117×
• United States v. Andre Michael Dubois
  Eleventh Circuit· 2025-06-02· cited 86×
• United States v. Steven Duarte
  Ninth Circuit· 2024-05-09· cited 33×
• Club Madonna Inc. v. City of Miami Beach
  Eleventh Circuit· 2022-08-01· cited 31×
• United States v. Dayne Sitladeen
  Eighth Circuit· 2023-04-04· cited 29×
• Louis Matthew Clements v. State of Florida
  Eleventh Circuit· 2023-02-09· cited 19×
• Texas Department of Insurance and Cassie Brown, in Her Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Texas Department of Insurance v. Stonewater Roofing, Ltd. Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2024-06-07
• United States v. Heriberto Carbajal-Flores
  Seventh Circuit· 2025-07-25
• United States v. Milder Escobar-Temal
  Sixth Circuit· 2025-12-15
• United States v. Vazquez-Ramirez
  Ninth Circuit· 2026-01-02

Cites

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

• Crawford v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-03-08· cited 14,756×
• Pickering v. Board of Ed. of Township High School Dist. 205, Will Cty.
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 6,021×
• United States v. O'Brien
  Supreme Court· 1968-05-27· cited 3,604×
• Ward v. Rock Against Racism
  Supreme Court· 1989-08-30· cited 3,406×
• District of Columbia v. Heller
  Supreme Court· 2008-06-26· cited 3,086×
• Plyler v. Doe
  Supreme Court· 1982-09-09· cited 2,739×
• Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. v. Public Service Commission
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-20· cited 2,526×
• McDonald v. City of Chicago
  Supreme Court· 2010-06-28· cited 2,024×
• City of Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-21· cited 1,818×
• Demore v. Kim
  Supreme Court· 2003-04-29· cited 1,378×
• Mathews v. Diaz
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-01· cited 1,237×
• Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition
  Supreme Court· 2002-04-16· cited 1,129×
• United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez
  Supreme Court· 1990-02-28· cited 810×
• Andrew Pretka v. Kolter City Plaza II, Inc.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2010-06-08· cited 701×
• Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn.
  Supreme Court· 2011-06-27· cited 599×
• IBP, Inc. v. Alvarez
  Supreme Court· 2005-11-08· cited 567×
• Arkansas Writers' Project, Inc. v. Ragland
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-22· cited 472×
• Greater New Orleans Broadcasting Assn., Inc. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-14· cited 336×
• Heller v. District of Columbia
  D.C. Circuit· 2011-10-04· cited 321×
• United States v. Skoien
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-07-13· cited 318×