Monroe v. Butler, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
47 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2009 · most notably United States v. Echeverri (1993), United States v. Garcia (1993)
47 federal appellate ·
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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Gregg v. Georgia · Stoll v. Gottlieb · South Central Enterprises, Inc. v. Farrington
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The state court had no authority to reconsider or redecide this issue. Once a federal court has determined a federal question in a case, a state court must recognize and give effect to that determination____ [T]he state court acted beyond the scope of its authority and in disregard of settled law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Monroe v. Butler
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.