United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1,369 federal appellate · 433 district · 385 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,811 later decisions (56 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc (2000), Mistretta v. United States (1989)
1,369 federal appellate · 433 district · 385 state decisions — followed in 41 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedGeraghty v. United States Parole Commission (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1623 · 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act)
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Bell v. Wolfish · Baker v. Carr · Roe v. Wade · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.
Cited together with Sosna v. Iowa · Deposit Guaranty National Bank v. Roper · Powell v. McCormack · Weinstein v. Bradford · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons
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 3,811 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“capable of repetition, yet evading review.”
209 later decisions quote this exact passage“One or more members of a class may sue or be sued as representative parties on behalf of all only if (1) the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable, (2) there are questions of law or fact common to the class, (3) the claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical of the claims or defenses of the class, and (4) the representative parties will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that an action brought on behalf of a class does not become moot upon expiration of the named plaintiff's claim, even though class certification has been denied.”
12 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.