United States v. Lanier’s Empirical Analysis
73 F.3d 1380 · 1996
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Hope v. Pelzer (2002), United States v. Lanier (1997)
39 federal appellate · 4 district · 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 242 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 242
Relies on Anderson v. Creighton · Graham v. Connor · Parratt v. Taylor · Roe v. Wade · Rochin v. People of California
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sexual assaults may not be prosecuted as violations of a constitutional substantive due process right to bodily integrity”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“requirement, the Supreme Court must not only enunciate the existence of a right, it must also hold that the right applies to a factual situation fundamentally similar to the one at bar.... The”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“standard used to judge qualified immunity in section 1983 cases. Id. at 1393. The Supreme Court granted certiorari”
3 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.