Wilson v. Gooding’s Empirical Analysis
431 F.2d 855 · 1970
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1996
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez · Flemming v. Nestor · Allen v. State Board of Elections · Phillips v. United States · Swift & Co. v. Wickham
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well recognized that there are four essential requirements for the application of § 2281: (1) a state statute must be challenged; (2) a state officer or local officer performing a state function must be a party defendant; (3) injunctive relief must be sought; (4) it must be claimed that the statute is contrary to the Constitution. Wilson v. Gooding, 431 F.2d 855, 857 (5th Cir. 1970).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Any person who shall, without provocation, use to or of another, and in his presence, opprobrious words or abusive language, tending to cause a breach of the peace . . . shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he convening of a three-judge court is an extraordinary procedure which in itself imposes a burden upon our federal court system.”
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.