Gaines v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
111 U.S. 395 · 1884
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 9 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2015 · most notably Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg (1989), International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Hoosier Cardinal Corp. (1966)
38 federal appellate · 9 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Felicit Fletcher v. Celine Babin · Hall v. Marston · Wayman v. Cochrane · Beardsley v. Root
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever one person has in his hands money equitably belonging to another, that olhe.r person may recover it by assumpsit for money had and received.””
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.