Gutierrez v. Ada’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 24 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Ali v. Federal Bureau of Prisons (2008), Graham County Soil & Water Conservation District v. United States Ex Rel. Wilson (2010)
70 federal appellate · 24 district · 12 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Almendarez-Torres v. United States · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Gustafson v. Alloyd Co. · Kungys v. United States · Jarecki v. G. D. Searle & Co.
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“). See, e.g., Gutierrez v. Ada, 528 U.S. 250 , 255, 120 S.Ct. 740, 145 L.Ed.2d 747 (2000), quoting Jarecki v. G.D. Searle & Co., 367 U.S. 303 , 307, 81 S.Ct. 1579, 6 L.Ed.2d 859 (1961) (maxim noscitur a sociis, . . . while not an inescapable rule, is often wisely applied where a word is capable of many meanings in order to avoid the giving of unintended breath to the Acts of Congress”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“words and people are known by their companions,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“later laws that 'do not seek to clarify an earlier enacted general term' and 'do not depend for their effectiveness upon clarification, or a change in the meaning of an earlier statute,' are 'beside the point' in reading the first enactment.”
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.