United States v. Gorham’s Empirical Analysis
523 F.2d 1088 · 1975
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably United States v. Decoster (1976), Campbell v. McGruder (1978)
42 federal appellate · 10 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1072 · 18 U.S.C. § 3486 (§ 248 of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 6001 · 18 U.S.C. § 751 · 49 U.S.C. § 305
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Santobello v. New York · Brown v. Walker · Ullmann v. United States · Sparf 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I, Kenneth Hardy, Director of the Department of Corrections of the District of Columbia, hereby promise that there will be no reprisals of any kind, including no deadlock, nor will I bring any court action against any of the inmates involved in the action that has taken place on October 11, 1972 at the D.C. Jail. The inmates will be continued in their present location pending any court action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“3. Defendants [supervisory personnel at the D.C. Jail], their agents and employees, shall take no action, nor make any threat of action, to injure or harass any inmate because of actions arising out of the disturbance at the District of Columbia Jail on October 11 and 12, 1972.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The right to equal justice under law inures to the public as well as to individual parties to specific litigation, and that right is debased when juries at their caprice ignore the dictates of established precedent and procedure.”
2 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.