Huggins v. Isenbarger’s Empirical Analysis
798 F.2d 203 · 1986
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona (1997), Board of Pardons v. Allen (1987)
44 federal appellate · 5 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Preiser v. Rodriguez
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“application of rules to facts. To the extent a request appeals to discretion rather than rules, there is no protected interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“defined by the substantive criteria that guide the decision, not by the procedural trappings.”
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.