Mehta v. Surles’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2019
3 district · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Parratt v. Taylor · Daniels v. Williams · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an easement of right-of-way in common with others over Edgemont Circle, as shown on said map for ingress and egress to and from the above premises and Old Army Road.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mehta v. Surles“The doctrine of ripeness embodied in Article III of the United States Constitution ensures that a dispute has 'matured to a point that warrants decision.'”
1 later decision 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.