Martens v. Shannon’s Empirical Analysis
836 F.2d 715 · 1988
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 17 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably McNair v. Campbell (2005), Matthews v. Evatt (1997)
29 federal appellate · 17 district ·
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 Rose v. Lundy · Picard v. Connor · Barefoot v. Estelle · Rideout v. United States · Anderson v. Harless
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The ground relied upon must be presented face-up and squarely. Oblique references which hint that a theory may be lurking in the woodwork will not turn the trick.'”
8 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.