Mangual v. Rotger-Sabat’s Empirical Analysis
317 F.3d 45 · 2003
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 67 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Initiative & Referendum Institute v. Walker (2006), Steir v. Girl Scouts of the USA (2004)
54 federal appellate · 67 district · 6 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 Warth v. Seldin · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Baker v. Carr · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc.
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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If events have transpired to render a court opinion merely advisory, Article III considerations require dismissal of the case.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The doctrine of mootness enforces the mandate 'that an actual controversy must be extant at all stages of the review, not merely at the time the complaint is filed.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]wo types of injuries may confer Article III standing without necessitating that the challenger actually undergo a criminal prosecution. The first is when “the plaintiff has alleged an intention to engage in a course of conduct arguably affected with a constitutional interest, but proscribed by [the] statute, and there exists a credible threat of prosecution.” [Babbitt v. United Farm Workers Nat’l Union, 442 U.S. 289 , 298, 99 S.Ct. 2301 , 60 L.Ed.2d 895 (1979)] .... The second type of injury is when a plaintiff “is chilled from exercising her right to free expression or forgoes expression in order to avoid enforcement consequences.” N.H. Right to Life [Political Action Comm. v. Gardner], 99 F.3d [8,] 13 [(1st Cir.1996)] [.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blum v. Holder · Martin v. Gross
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.