McLaughlin v. Bronson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2020 · most notably Mendillo v. Board of Education (1998), Harbison v. Bell (2009)
3 federal appellate · 56 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 Morrissey v. Brewer · State v. Evans · Pandolphe's Auto Parts, Inc. v. Town of Manchester · Connecticut Board of Pardons v. Dumschat · Schick v. Reed
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Connecticut, the pardoning power is vested in the legislature[,] which has delegated its exercise to the board of pardons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Thompson v. Barr“board['s] unfettered discretion in making its pardon and commutation decisions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Thompson v. Barr
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.