Lewis v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
409 F.3d 1271 · 2005
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2025
3 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Collins v. City of Harker Heights · Palko v. State of Connecticut · Regents of the University of Michigan v. Ewing · United States v. Gates
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“state-created rights are infringed by a 'legislative act,' the substantive component of the Due Process Clause generally protects that person from arbitrary and irrational government action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Legislative acts, on the other hand, generally apply to a larger segment of-if not all of-society; laws and broad-ranging executive regulations are the most common examples.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“crucial ... distinction between 'legislative' acts and 'non-legislative' or 'executive' acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.