Gerard v. Helvering’s Empirical Analysis
120 F.2d 235 · 1941
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 1969
8 federal appellate · 1 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.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the purpose is to protect the holder by making invalid unregistered transfers, * * * the bond always so provides upon its face.” Id., 236 .”
3 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.