Martinez Rivera v. Trias Monge’s Empirical Analysis
587 F.2d 539 · 1978
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2017
7 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Reamer v. Beall · Doe v. Pringle · Lovely v. Laliberte · Neil S. MacKay v. The Honorable Buell A. Nesbett and the Honorable John H. Dimond · Ginger v. Circuit Court for County of 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The settled law, with which we agree, is “that disciplinary orders of the highest court of a state may be reviewed federally only in the Supreme Court by petition for certiorari and not by suits in the district courts ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berberian v. Carter
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.