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877 F.3d 547 · 2017

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 2025
most recently cited

2 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Lockhart v. Fretwell · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · Rav v. City of St Paul Minnesota

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “continue to regulate other forms of sodomy, such as sodomy involving children, forcible sodomy, prostitution involving sodomy and sodomy in public.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “interpretation by the Supreme Court of Virginia puts these words in the statute as definitively as if it had been so amended by the legislature.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “invalid to the extent [it] appl[ied] to private, noncommercial and consensual sodomy involving only adults.”
    1 later decision 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.