Gordon v. Schiro’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Connally v. General Construction Co. · Zwickler v. Koota · Cox v. State of Louisiana · American Power & Light Co. v. Securities & Exchange Commission · Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An ordinance or statute is overbroad when it regulates or prohibits constitutionally protected conduct which should be left to the private domain, that is, conduct which the national, state or local government simply does not have the right to control.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is beyond the reach of a penal ordinance to prohibit people from merely being on the streets 'habitually' or even at late 'or unusual' hours.”
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.