Malcolm Gardner v. Robin Harris, M.D.’s Empirical Analysis
391 F.2d 885 · 1968
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2014 · most notably Block v. North Dakota Board of University and School Lands North Dakota Board of University and School Lands (1983), Carter v. Seamans (1969)
19 federal appellate · 1 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 Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. · Dugan v. Rank · United States v. Causby · Malone v. Bowdoin
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Merely because the Superintendent may have been acting wrongfully in interfering with plaintiff's access to the highway, either as a matter of violation of property rights under the deeds or as a tort under principles of general law, does not amount to circumstances fulfilling the exception that the officer must be acting beyond his statutory powers.”
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.