Gomez v. Whitney’s Empirical Analysis
757 F.2d 1005 · 1985
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Andrews v. Fowler (1996), Crowder v. Sinyard (1989)
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Martinez v. California · Lone Ranger Television, Inc. v. Program Radio Corp. · Smith v. Ross
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we can find no instance where the courts have recognized inadequate investigation as sufficient to state a civil rights claim unless there was another recognized constitutional right involved”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Andrews v. Fowler“A prerequisite to recovery under [Sec. 1983] is that the plaintiff prove that the defendants deprived him of a right secured by the Constitution and the laws of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crowder v. Sinyard
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.