Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2013
2 district · 2 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 · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Farrar v. Hobby · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Texas State Teachers Ass'n v. Garland Independent School District
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hat a decision favorable to a section 1983 plaintiff ... later vacated as moot does not alter the plaintiff's status as a prevailing party provided the plaintiff achieved that status before the case was rendered moot.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`no reasonable expectation' that the challenged practices -if invalid -will be reinstated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Katuria Smith“[o]rdinarily, voluntary cessation of challenged activity will not render a claim moot.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Katuria Smith
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.