Martinez v. Trainor’s Empirical Analysis
556 F.2d 818 · 1977
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably Charles v. Daley (1986), Clipper Exxpress v. Rocky Mountain Motor Tariff Bureau (1982)
44 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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
Relies on United States v. Robinson · Thompson v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Harold Yanow v. Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company, a Corporation · Vietti v. Wayne
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n application to the court for an order shall be by motion which . . . shall be made in writing, shall state with particularity the grounds therefor, and shall set forth the relief or order sought.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if a party could file a skeleton motion and later fill it in, the purpose of the time limitation would be defeated.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“criteria of Rule 7(b)(1). Looking at the motion, it is apparent that the defendant failed to state even one ground for granting the motion and thus failed to meet the minimal standard of”
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.