Gora v. Costa’s Empirical Analysis
971 F.2d 1325 · 1992
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Aetna Casualty and Surety Company v. Leahey Construction Company, Inc., et al. (2000), Leaf v. Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin (1992)
16 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 Rakas v. Illinois · Green v. Bock Laundry MacHine Co. · National Fidelity Life Insurance v. Karaganis · Campbell v. Greer · Geitz v. Lindsey
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all that is needed to serve the purpose of challenging the witness's veracity is the elicitation of the crime charged, the date, and the disposition”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The idea underlying Rule 609, whether right or wrong, is that criminals are more likely to testify untruthfully.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“only parties with a real interest or stake in the litigation have standing to sue in federal court.”
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.