Hatton v. Bonner’s Empirical Analysis
356 F.3d 955 · 2003
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Wallace v. State (2009), State v. Petersen-Beard (2016)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Lockyer Attorney General of California v. Andrade · Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez · Smith v. Doe · Early v. Packer · Lambert v. People of the State of California
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Ex Post Facto Clause does not preclude a State from making reasonable categorical judgments that conviction of specified crimes should entail particular regulatory consequences. We have upheld against ex post facto challenges laws imposing regulatory burdens on individuals convicted of crimes without any corresponding risk assessment. The State’s determination to legislate with respect to convicted sex offenders as a class, rather than require individual determination of their dangerousness, does not make the statute a punishment under the Ex Post Facto Clause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“To hold that the mere presence of a deterrent purpose renders such sanctions 'criminal' . . . would severely undermine the Government's ability to engage in effective regulation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether [the sancetion] has historically been regarded as a punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wallace v. State
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.