Gentry v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1998
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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. § 1343 · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Nebbia v. People of State of New York · Ferguson v. Skrupa · Grosjean v. American Press Co.
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.
“Creation of a competitor by a government body's actions, whether it results simply in loss of revenue to a privately owned company or ultimately, in its being forced to cease business, does not amount to a taking or deprivation of property within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment.... Since commencement of a public ambulance service was a proper exercise of its power, the Council was under no duty to consult the corporation before establishing that service. Plaintiff's contention that the City's failure to hold a prior public hearing in order to determine economic feasibility and compelling public interest violated its Fourteenth Amendment rights is totally without merit.”
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.