Gardner v. Luckey’s Empirical Analysis
500 F.2d 712 · 1974
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Richardson v. Fleming (1981), Santiago v. City of Philadelphia (1977)
14 federal appellate · 1 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 Younger v. Harris · Wolff v. McDonnell · Preiser v. Rodriguez · O'Shea v. Littleton · Cass v. United States
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'challenge the legality of their custody via federal habeas corpus, subject, of course, to prior exhaustion of state remedies.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is clear from the face of the complaint that our appellants contemplate exactly the sort of intrusive and unworkable supervision of state judicial processes condemned in O'Shea.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Luckey III v. Harris“[t]his case bears a strong resemblance to O'Shea v. Littleton.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Luckey III v. Harris
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.