Timbs v. Indiana’s Empirical Analysis
2019
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably 140 S. Ct. 1390 - Ramos v. Louisiana (2020), Gamble v. United States (2019)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 58 state decisions — followed in 19 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.
Relationships
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Solem v. Helm · Ingraham v. Wright · Harmelin v. Michigan · Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]xcessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'marginaliz[ed]' the Privileges or Immunities Clause in the late 19th century by defining the collection of rights covered by the Clause 'quite narrowly.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“When the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified, the terms privileges and immunities had an established meaning as synonyms for rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.