Pearson v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
624 F.3d 682 · 2010
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 16901 (Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006) · 42 U.S.C. § 16913 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Heck v. Humphrey · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations · United States v. Loy · United States v. Paul
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an injury that has not yet occurred is sufficiently likely to happen to justify judicial intervention”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the inevitability of the operation of a statute against certain individuals is patent, it is irrelevant to the existence of a justiciable controversy that there will be a time delay before the disputed provisions will come into effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the court would be in no better position to adjudicate the issues in the future than it is now.”
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.