Gollust v. Mendell’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 24 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 269 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Paddington Partners v. Bouchard (1994), 133 S. Ct. 2652 - Hollingsworth v. Perry (2013)
54 federal appellate · 24 district · 24 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
reviewedMendell ex rel. Viacom Inc. v. Gollust (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 8 U.S.C. § 1503 (§ 360 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Baker v. Carr · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · Crowell v. Benson
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 269 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“serious constitutional doubt whether that plaintiff could demonstrate the standing required by Article III's case-or-controversy limitation”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“been reluctant to exceed a literal, 'mechanical' application of the statutory text in determining who may be subject to liability,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“maintain a `personal stake' in the outcome of the litigation throughout its course.”
3 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.