Mullane’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
20 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Mullane, United States v. De La Cruz (2021)
20 district · 1 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 Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Connecticut National Bank v. Germain · Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. · Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. · State v. Simpson
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because of their very potency, inherent powers must be exercised with restraint and discretion, and thus should be used sparingly and reserved for egregious circumstances.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] bill of sale, conveyance, mortgage, assignment, or related instrument, whenever made, that includes any part of a documented vessel or a vessel for which an application for documentation is filed, must be filed with the Secretary [of the Department of Homeland Security] to be valid, to the extent the vessel is involved, against any person except ... a person having actual notice of the sale, conveyance, mortgage, assignment, or related instrument.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a district court exercising its inherent powers in this fashion must describe the bad faith conduct with 'sufficient specificity,' accompanied by a 'detailed explanation of the reasons justifying the award.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.