Benitez v. Mata’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 5 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Clark Field Office Director Seattle Immigration and Customs Enforcement et al. v. Martinez (2005), Kowalski Judge 26th Judicial Circuit Court of Michigan et al. v. Tesmer et al. (2004)
34 federal appellate · 5 district · 63 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
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.