Sanks v. Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 9 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1999 · most notably Bell v. Wolfish (1979), Gibson v. Berryhill (1973)
12 federal appellate · 9 district · 12 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 United States v. Petrillo · Rescue Army v. Municipal Court of Los Angeles · United States v. Fruehauf · Sanks v. Georgia
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“focus of [the] lawsuit [had] been completely blurred, if not altogether obliterated, and our judgment on the important issues involved [had become] potentially immaterial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bell v. Wolfish · Doe v. Delaware“exercise our powers of judicial review only as a matter of necessity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The crux of this controversy from its inception has been appellants’ insistence that they, not their alleged landlords, had the right to lawful possession of the premises in dispute and their demands that they be permitted to remain in possession pending the outcome of the litigation. With appellants’ voluntary removal from the premises this aspect of the case is clearly moot.”
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.