Gore v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
563 F.2d 159 · 1977
Citation profile
112 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 187 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2011 · most notably Allison v. Citgo Petroleum Corp. (1998), 23 Cal. 3d 917 - Woodland Hills Residents Ass'n v. City Council of Los Angeles (1979)
112 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · East Texas Motor Freight System, Inc. v. Rodriguez · Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer 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 187 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may be inferred from the circumstances as well as proved by the testimony.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“involves an evaluation of the conduct in question, the wisdom of some form of pecuniary punishment, and the advisability of a deterrent”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress did not intend that the vindication of statutorily granted rights would depend on the private party's economic resources or on the availability of free legal assistance.”
3 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.