Case v. Mondragon’s Empirical Analysis
887 F.2d 1388 · 1989
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably Brecheen v. Reynolds (1994), State v. Torres (1999)
67 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Townsend v. Sain · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Brown v. Allen
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]xplicit and implicit [factual] findings by state trial and appellate courts”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The presumption applies to basic, primary, or historical facts and the inferences that can properly be drawn regarding them.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'must have been so arbitrary and fundamentally unfair that it violates constitutional principles of due process.'”
4 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.