Metheny v. Hammonds’s Empirical Analysis
216 F.3d 1307 · 2000
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Marks v. United States · Bouie v. City of Columbia · California Department of Corrections v. Morales · Garner v. Jones · Fitzpatrick v. City of Atlanta
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A new regulation which just corrects an erroneous interpretation . . . by an agency of a clear pre-existing statute does not violate the Ex Post Facto Clause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the correction of a misapplied existing law,”
1 later decision 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.