Gaither v. Myers’s Empirical Analysis
404 F.2d 216 · 1968
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 17 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Gutierrez v. Collins (1979), Tooker v. Lopez (1969)
44 federal appellate · 17 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Ross v. Hartman · Harrison Richardson v. Thomas E. Gregory · Hudson v. Lazarus · Peigh v. Baltimore & O. R.
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o confine the benefits of the ... rule to the territory ceded by the states of Maryland and Virginia to form the Nation’s Capital would be to shun the present reality of the economically and socially integrated greater metropolitan area. It is commonplace that residents of Maryland are part of the Washington Metropolitan trading area, and that District residents and businesses have an interest in the well-being of these citizens of the Free State.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he rule we are adopting tends to make the streets safer by discouraging the hazardous conduct which the ordinance forbids. It puts the burden of the risk ... upon those who create it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no person driving or in charge of any motor vehicle ... shall permit it to stand unattended without first stopping the engine, locking the ignition, and removing the key... .”
2 later decisions 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.