Mendoza v. Blodgett’s Empirical Analysis
960 F.2d 1425 · 1992
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Hallstrom, Smith v. Sumner (1993)
27 federal appellate · 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mathews v. Eldridge · Anderson v. Creighton · Hewitt v. Helms · Powers v. Ohio
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contain[s] 'explicitly mandatory language,' i.e., specific directives to the decisionmaker that if the regulations' substantive predicates are present, a particular outcome must follow.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by adopting regulations which establish substantive predicates to govern official decisionmaking and by mandating the outcome to be reached upon a finding that the relevant criteria have been met.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f a decisionmaker can make his decision for any constitutionally permissible reason or for no reason at all, the state has not created a liberty interest.”
5 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.