Gardner v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2010
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City · Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · Hodel v. Virginia Surface Mining & Reclamation Assn., Inc. · Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Oil 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has crystallized to the point at which [the] court can identify [the] relatively discrete dispute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Gardners argue that the Supreme Court's holding in Machipongo overruled this Court's determination in Beltrami that the EHB has jurisdiction over taking claims. We cannot agree that the Supreme Court's decision has that effect. The decision in Machipongo does not hold that the EHB never has jurisdiction over taking claims. Instead, the Supreme Court specifically held that the EHB could not have jurisdiction over a takings claim that in form is a preenforcement challenge to a regulation of the Environmental Quality Board because the EHB's jurisdiction was limited to reviewing post-enforcement challenges to regulations....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]ts basic rationale is to prevent the courts, through avoidance of premature adjudication, from entangling themselves in abstract disagreements over administrative policies, and also to protect the agencies from judicial interference until an administrative decision has been formalized and its effects felt in a concrete way by the challenging parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.