Gates v. Towery’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.3d 429 · 2005
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Phillips v. Ford Motor Co. (2006), 185 N.C. App. 462 - McClure v. County of Jackson (2007)
9 federal appellate · 2 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 Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Bell v. Hood · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Carey v. Piphus · Buckhannon Board and Care Home Incs v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It may be that the changes in Chicago’s operating procedures would make prospective relief inappropriate — indeed, Gates and Nelson lack standing to seek it, because they do not contend that they are likely to be arrested again.... To the extent that they want an injunction requiring the City to compensate them for past losses, they are on a snipe hunt. There’s no such animal, beyond the equitable remedy of restitution — and the City stands ready to hand over the amounts it seized in order to avoid unjust enrichment. If the constitutional sufficiency of the City’s current policies is in dispute, some person adversely affected by them (as Gates and Nelson are not) will have to take up the cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gates v. Towery
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.