Hardwick v. Reese’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2005 · most notably Connecticut Board of Pardons v. Dumschat (1981), Jago v. Van Curen (1981)
39 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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.
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for further consideration in light of Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal Complex ( 442 U.S. 1 , 99 S.Ct. 2100, 60 L.Ed.2d 668 (1979)) ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Van Curen v. Jago
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.