Gumbel v. Pitkin’s Empirical Analysis
124 U.S. 131 · 1888
Citation profile
95 federal appellate · 27 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 283 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2023 · most notably Seattle Times Co. v. Rhinehart (1984), McClellan v. Carland (1910)
95 federal appellate · 27 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Covell v. Heyman · Freeman v. Howe · Krippendorf v. Hyde · James L. v. Carryl · Buck v. Colbath
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 283 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the equitable powers of courts of law over their own process, to prevent abuses, oppression, and injustice, are inherent and equally extensive and efficient.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(T)he equitable powers of the courts of the United States, sitting as courts of law, over their own process, to prevent abuse, oppression and injustice, are inherent, and as extensive and efficient as may be required by the necessity for their exercise....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The form of the proceeding, indeed, must be determined by the circumstances of the case. If the original cause,” in which the process has issued or the property or fund is held is in equity, the intervention will be by petition pro interesse suo, or by a more formal, but dependent, bill in equity, if necessary. Relief, either in a suit in equity, or an action at law, many properly be given, in some cases, in a summary way, by motion merely, supported by affidavits. In actions at law, where goods have been taken in execution after judgment, or upon attachment before, a proceeding in the nature of an interpleader might be appropriately ordered by the court., such as was given in the English practice to the officer by the Stat. of 1 & 2 Will. IV, c. 58 (2 Lush. Pr. (by Dixon) 777), and in that the respective rights of the claimants to the property could generally be tried as in an action at law by a jury, upon a formal issue framed for that purpose, or with the consent of the parties by the court, cr, if the claim was such as that it could be determined only upon principles of equity, as administered in courts of that general jurisdiction, it would be proper to provide relief upon a bill of that nature, filed for that purpose. If the statutes of the state contained provisions regulating trials of the right of property in such cases, it might be most convenient to make them a part of the practice of the court, as contemplated by sections 914-916 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. Co”
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.