Marino v. Ortiz’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
318 federal appellate · 12 district · 95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 659 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Martin v. Wilks (1989), Devlin v. Scardelletti (2002)
318 federal appellate · 12 district · 95 state decisions — followed in 21 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMarino v. Ortiz (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · United Airlines, Inc. v. McDonald · Wrenn v. Weinberger · United States of America Ex Rel the State of Louisiana v. Hon Aleck Boarman
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 659 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule that only parties to a lawsuit, or those that properly become parties, may appeal an adverse judgment, is well settled.”
57 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]ecause petitioners were not parties to the underlying lawsuit, and because they failed to intervene for purposes of appeal, they may not appeal from the consent decree approving that lawsuit's settlement....”
5 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.