Mendrano v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
797 F.2d 1538 · 1986
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2009
10 federal appellate · 3 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 10 U.S.C. § 816 · 10 U.S.C. § 818 · 10 U.S.C. § 826 · 10 U.S.C. § 827 · 10 U.S.C. § 851 · 10 U.S.C. § 852 · 10 U.S.C. § 918 · 10 U.S.C. § 920
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Williams v. Florida · Burns v. Wilson · Johnson v. Louisiana · Apodaca v. Oregon
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e will [review the claim] here, since the constitutional issues raised are substantial and largely free of factual questions....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Monk v. Zelez · Lundy v. Zelez“[n]o person may be sentenced to life imprisonment or to confinement for more than ten years, except by the concurrence of three-fourths of the members present at the time the vote is taken.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Here the record indicates that the military courts gave at least some consideration to petitioner's ... claims [but] the Government does not argue that full and fair consideration by the military courts makes judicial review inappropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dodson v. Zelez
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.