Martinez v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
544 F.2d 1233 · 1976
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Doe v. New York University (1981), McDonald's Corporation v. Robertson (1998)
87 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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 Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Thorpe v. Housing Authority of Durham · Guerra v. Manchester Terminal Corp.
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mandatory preliminary relief, which goes well beyond simply maintaining the status quo pendente lite, is particularly disfavored, and should not be issued unless the facts and law clearly favor the moving party.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when a pure question of law is involved and a refusal to consider it would result in a miscarriage of justice.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the classification of an order as an injunction, the essential effect and character of an order, rather than the terminology applied to it, are decisive,”
2 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.