Mendel v. Felbert’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2021
13 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. § 1738A
Relies on Hickman v. Taylor · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Roberts v. United States Jaycees · 75 Wash. 2d 1 - Dike v. Dike · Hazen v. Municipality of Anchorage
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right to associate is a fundamental right protected by the First Amendment and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“deferential abuse of discretion standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.