Lynce v. Mathis’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
261 federal appellate · 99 district · 568 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,238 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Rogers v. Tennessee (2001), Johnson v. United States (2000)
261 federal appellate · 99 district · 568 state decisions — followed in 33 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 Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Weaver v. Graham · Dobbert v. Florida · Collins v. Youngblood · Miller v. Florida
Cited together with Weaver v. Graham · California Department of Corrections v. Morales · Collins v. Youngblood · Miller v. Florida · Garner v. Jones
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 1,238 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An ex post facto law possesses two elements: (1) 'it must apply to events occurring before its enactment,' and (2) 'it must disadvantage the offender affected by it.'”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“one determinant of petitioner's prison term ... and ... [the petitioner's] effective sentence is altered once this determinant is changed.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`is an essential thread in the mantle of protection that the law affords the individual citizen.'”
15 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.