Overby v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1959
5 federal appellate ·
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 · Southern Pac Co v. United States · Porter v. Sabin · Ex Parte Chetwood · Day v. Woodworth
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the ruling of a trial court on the question as to who should open and «lose a case is merely upon a matter of practice not proper to be made the subject of exception Or to be reviewed upon writ of error.” Overby v. Gordon, 13 App. D. C. 392 , 406.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Snow v. Snow
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.