Adams v. Howerton’s Empirical Analysis
673 F.2d 1036 · 1982
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 8 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably 135 S. Ct. 2584 - Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), Agyeman v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (2002)
52 federal appellate · 8 district · 9 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
Relies on Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Bolling v. Sharpe · Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Skinner v. State of Oklahoma Williamson · Southeastern Community College v. Davis
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“interpret language in one section of a statute consistently with language of other sections and with the purposes of the entire statute considered as a whole.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]ven if it were [a fundamental right], we would not apply a strict scrutiny standard of review to the statute”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Flores v. Meese · Flores v. Meese“In the enforcement of ... [immigration policies], the Executive Branch of the Government must respect the procedural safeguards of due process.... [even if] the formulation of these policies is entrusted exclusively to Congress.”
2 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.