Mintzes v. Buchanon’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2014 · most notably Armster v. United States District Court (1986), United States of America v. Andrew Anthony Christopher (2001)
16 federal appellate · 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 Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on McMann v. Richardson · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Sigmond v. United States · Duke Power Co. v. Greenwood County · Dove v. United States
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In my view, the Court has a higher duty when it learns that a case has become moot after it has granted review than when it discovers that a case in which review is being sought has become moot.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o the extent that Durham... may be inconsistent with this ruling, Durham is overruled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.