Gordon v. Degelmann’s Empirical Analysis
29 F.3d 295 · 1994
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Berg v. County of Allegheny (2000), 27 Cal. 4th 601 - People v. McKay (2002)
51 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Graham v. Connor
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the [inconsistent] verdicts cannot be reconciled, the whole case must be retried.... If inconsistency escapes notice until after the jury has disbanded, the proper thing to do is to hold a new trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“distinctly the matter objected to and the grounds of the objection,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In determining whether there has been an unreasonable search and seizure by state officers, a federal court must make an independent inquiry.... The test is one of federal law, neither enlarged by what one state court may have countenanced, nor diminished by what another may have colorably suppressed.”
1 later decision 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.