Gumbel v. Pitkin’s Empirical Analysis
113 U.S. 545 · 1885
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1983 · most notably Gillespie v. United States Steel Corp. (1964), Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United States (1931)
32 federal appellate · 7 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 Freeman v. Howe · Pearson v. Yewdall · School District v. Hall · Dulles v. Jones · Moore v. Simonds
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If tfie plaintiff in error lias a Just foundation for his assertion of error in the .iudgment against him, it would be a great and apparently irremediable injustice to dismiss his writ.””
1 later decision 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.