Hamilton v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
74 F.3d 99 · 1996
Citation profile
19 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Figueroa v. Rivera (1998), McMillian v. We Johnson (1996)
19 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Estelle v. Gamble · Morrissey v. Brewer · Farmer v. Brennan
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Footnote omitted.] Conversely, if a restriction or condition is not reasonably related to a legitimate goal—if it is arbitrary or purposeless—a court permissibly may infer that the purpose of the governmental action is punishment that may not constitutionally be inflicted upon detainees qua detainees. 34 441 U.S. at 539, 99 S.Ct. 1861.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n our society liberty is the norm, and detention prior to trial or without trial is the carefully limited exception.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“necessarily imply the invalidity of his conviction,”
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.