Gault v. Garrison’s Empirical Analysis
569 F.2d 993 · 1977
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Durso v. Rowe (1978), Rittenband v. Cory (1984)
9 federal appellate · 5 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Dandridge v. Williams · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Shapiro v. Thompson
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the effect of excluding from service so few officers who are in fact unqualified as to render age 50 a criterion wholly unrelated to the objective of the statute. . . .,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“only hint that the purpose may be to remove unfit teachers.”
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.