Toll v. Moreno’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 12 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2014 · most notably Elkins v. Moreno (1978), Martinez Ex Rel. Morales v. Bynum (1983)
4 federal appellate · 12 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Weinberger v. Salfi · Vlandis v. Kline · Elkins v. Moreno · Toll v. Moreno
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fundamentally altered the posture of the case,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moreno v. Toll · Toll v. Moreno“It is the policy of the University of Maryland to grant in-state status for admission, tuition and charge-differential purposes only to United States citizens and to immigrant aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence. Furthermore , such individuals (or their parents) must display Maryland domicile. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Elkins v. Moreno · Toll v. Moreno“if domicile [was] not the 'paramount' policy consideration of the University, this case [was] no longer 'squarely within Vlandis as limited by Salfi ,' " and thus raised "new issues of constitutional law which should be addressed in the first instance by the District Court.”
2 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.