Malone v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025
3 federal appellate · 15 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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Mennonite Board of Missions v. Adams · Bullock v. United States · Tulsa Professional Collection Services, Inc. v. Pope · National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough the State may have made a reasonable calculation of how to reach Jones, it had good reason to suspect when the notice was returned that Jones was `no better off than if the notice had never been sent.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The return of the certified notice marked `unclaimed' should have been a red flag for some further action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Plemons v. Gale
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.