Houston v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
547 F.3d 1357 · 2008
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2023
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 6861 · 42 U.S.C. § 6862 · 42 U.S.C. § 6863 · 42 U.S.C. § 6868 · 42 U.S.C. § 6870
Relies on Federal Communications Commission v. Beach Communications, Inc. · Maine v. Thiboutot · City of New Orleans v. Dukes · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Heller v. Doe Ex Rel. Doe
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a law that legislatively determines guilt and inflicts punishment upon an identifiable individual without provision of die protections of a judicial trial”
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.