Monroe v. Beard’s Empirical Analysis
536 F.3d 198 · 2008
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Morrow v. Balaski (2013), Sheridan v. NGK Metals Corp. (2010)
15 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Bell v. Wolfish · Parratt v. Taylor · Hudson v. Palmer
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Redemptionist” theory ... propounds that a person has a split personality: a real person and a fictional person called the "strawman.” The "strawman” purportedly came into being when the United States went off the gold standard in 1993 [sic], and instead, pledged the strawman of its citizens as collateral for the country’s national debt. Redemptionists claim that government has power only over the strawman and not over the live person, who remains free. Individuals can free themselves by filing UCC financing statements, thereby acquiring an interest in their strawman. Thereafter, the real person can demand that government officials pay enormous sums of money to use the strawman's name, or, in the case of prisoners, to keep him in custody-”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he complaint must describe the underlying arguable claim well enough to show that it is `more than mere hope,' and it must describe the `lost remedy.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Reviewing such an order, we accept as true all allegations in the plaintiffs complaint as well as all reasonable inferences that can be drawn from them, and we construe them in a light most favorable to the non-movant.”
1 later decision 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.