Pierce v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
388 F.2d 846 · 1967
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2005
7 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Celebrezze v. Bolas · Marion v. Gardner · State Ex Rel. Pearson v. Probate Court
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he plaintiff [a convicted pedophile] has wholly failed to meet the burden of showing that his “mental disorder” is what precludes him from engaging in substantial gainful activity. In fact, to the contrary, the record appears to indicate that the plaintiff’s mental condition or disorder has not affected his ability to engage in his occupation ... albeit his propensities for the commission of sex offenses have repeatedly resulted in incarcerations which have interrupted his employment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not mentally ill or mentally retarded, suffering from a mental disorder coupled with criminal propensities to the commission of sex offenses, and who has demonstrated propensities toward acts of sexual assault or acts of sexual molestation of children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“1. a medically determined physical or mental impairment which has or will last at least 12 months, 2. inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity, and 3. the inability must be by reason of the impairment.”
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.