Nichols v. Hopper’s Empirical Analysis
173 F.3d 820 · 1999
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2020
13 federal appellate ·
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 William Marbury v. James Madison · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · City of Boerne v. Flores · Plaut v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc. · United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has left to the courts the judicial functions of applying those standards”
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.