Gillespie v. Crawford’s Empirical Analysis
858 F.2d 1101 · 1988
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Wilson v. Seiter (1991), Norman Charles Oliver v. Wayne Scott, et al. (2002)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp. · Ruiz v. Estelle · Ruiz v. Estelle · Green v. McKaskle · Ruiz v. Estelle
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Permitting multiple courts to entertain equitable claims and issue decrees that might affect the Texas prison system would require other courts to become familiar with the Ruiz decree, the current problems of the Texas prison system, and the possible disruptive effect of the exercise of equitable powers over matters covered by the Ruiz decree. Moreover, if separate suits for equitable relief are filed in other districts than that in which Ruiz is pending, even with respect to problems not encompassed by the relief granted in Ruiz , the court’s orders may hobble the effect of the Ruiz court’s continuing decree over the Texas prison system and its power both to enforce and to modify that decree.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Clements · Russell v. Johnson“orderly administration of [a similar] class action and risk inconsistent adjudications.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he individual class member should be barred from pursuing his own individual lawsuit that seeks equitable relief within the subject matter of the class action.”
2 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.