Gordon v. Leatherman’s Empirical Analysis
450 F.2d 562 · 1971
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2008
7 federal appellate · 5 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 Dixon v. Alabama State Board of Education · 116 So. 2d 472 - Joyner v. Shuman · 147 So. 2d 196 - Tolar v. Johns · McCarley v. Sanders
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[A]n elector may vote for a good reason, a bad reason, or for no reason whatsoever. That principle applies to recall elections as it does to all other elections."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"What is provided by the Dade County provisions is a political system in which commissioners are to serve at the will of the people. There is nothing inherently unconstitutional in such a system, and no court has so held." Gordon v. Leatherman, 450 F.2d 562, 566 (5th Cir. 1971).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“provide a method for the recall of any commissioner.”
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.