Honig v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1,114 federal appellate · 729 district · 203 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,881 later decisions (39 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc (2000), Rav v. City of St Paul Minnesota (1992)
1,114 federal appellate · 729 district · 203 state decisions — followed in 31 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Sibron v. State of New York Peters
Cited together with Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson Central School District Bd of Ed Westchester County v. Rowley · School Committee of the Town of Burlington v. Department of Education · Murphy v. Hunt · Weinstein v. Bradford · Smith v. Robinson
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 3,881 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“capable of repetition, yet evading review”
204 later decisions quote this exact passage“'reasonable expectation' or a 'demonstrated probability' that the same controversy will recur,”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“for purposes of assessing the likelihood that state authorities will reinflict a given injury, we generally have been unwilling to assume that the party seeking relief will repeat the type of misconduct that would once again place him or her at risk of that injury.”
17 later decisions 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.