271 F. Supp. 2d 649 - Lines v. Wargo’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Anderson v. Creighton · Estelle v. Gamble
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There are many reasons why in-state offenders are as unknown to communities as out-of-state ones-the transience of the population, the length of time between the trial and the release from prison of an offender, the sheer size of the population of most cities and towns — and in fact these reasons have been offered in support of [sex offender registration laws] in general.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[A]s a general proposition, convicted persons (including parolees) enjoy no fundamental right to travel.”). The Lines court faced an Equal Protection Clause challenge and found that the plaintiff-parolee’s right to interstate travel had been”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.