Wottlin v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
136 F.3d 1032 · 1998
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Cook v. Riley, Gallegos-Hernandez v. United States (2012)
16 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Olim v. Wakinekona
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A classification that categorizes inmates based on the type of criminal offenses for which they have been convicted does not implicate a suspect class.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a prior federal and/or state conviction for homicide, forcible rape, robbery, or aggravated assault”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martinez v. Flowers · Cook v. Riley“'arbitrary, capricious, or manifestly contrary to the statute.'”
2 later decisions 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.