Sonnier v. Crain’s Empirical Analysis
613 F.3d 436 · 2010
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2022
5 federal appellate · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on United States v. Salerno · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Kolender v. Lawson · Lemon v. Kurtzman
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The facial/as-applied distinction merely goes to the breadth of the remedy employed because a facial challenge is an argument for the facial invalidation of a law, whereas an as-applied challenge is an argument for the narrower remedy of as-applied invalidation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Doe v. Abbott“establish[ing] that no set of circumstances exist under which the law would be valid or that the statute lacks any plainly legitimate sweep.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. Abbott
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.