Rahn v. Hawkins’s Empirical Analysis
464 F.3d 813 · 2006
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably State v. White (2015), Sherman v. Winco Fireworks, Inc. (2008)
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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. § 1870 · 28 U.S.C. § 2111 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on United States v. Olano · Graham v. Connor · Arizona v. Fulminante · Johnson v. United States · Neder v. United States
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] statement is attributable to a person when he or she stands silent in the face of its utterance if the natural response would be to deny it if untrue”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) there is an error; (2) the error is clear and obvious, rather than subject to reasonable dispute; (3) the error affected the appellant's substantial rights, which in the ordinary case means it affected the outcome of the district court proceedings; and (4) the error seriously affects the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he error disadvantaged both sides equally, and there is no evidence that the jury finally seated was anything less than completely fair”); United States v. Pryor, 195 Fed.Appx. 65, 71 (3d Cir.2006) (finding that the trial court’s”
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.