Mandel v. Bradley’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
392 federal appellate · 96 district · 110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 948 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Turner v. Safley (1987), McCleskey v. Zant (1991)
392 federal appellate · 96 district · 110 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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 Edelman v. Jordan · Storer v. Brown · Hicks v. Miranda · Jenness v. Fortson · Webster v. Fall
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 948 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prevent lower courts from coming to opposite conclusions on the precise issues presented and necessarily decided by those actions.”
62 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'(w)hen we summarily affirm, without opinion, . . . we affirm the judgment but not necessarily the reasoning by which it was reached.'”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) examine the jurisdictional statement in the earlier case to be certain that the constitutional questions presented were the same and, if they were, (b) determine that the judgment in fact rests upon decision of those questions and not even arguably upon some alternative nonconstitutional ground.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.