Gormley v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
134 U.S. 338 · 1890
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 27 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 217 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2015 · most notably American Steel Foundries v. Tri-City Central Trades Council (1921), Pusey & Jones Co. v. Hanssen (1923)
81 federal appellate · 27 district · 28 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 Burgess v. Seligman · Norton v. Shelby County · Holland v. Challen · Case of Broderick's Will · Kilbourn v. Sunderland
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 217 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The jurisdiction in equity attaches unless the legal remedy, both in respect to the final relief and the mode of obtaining it, is as efficient as the remedy which equity would afford under the same circumstances.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““An enlargement of equitable rights by state statute may be administered by the Circuit Courts of the United States as well as by the courts of the state; and when the case is one of a remedial proceeding, essentially of an equitable character, there can be no objection to the exercise of the jurisdiction.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Upon the construction of the constitution and laws of a state, this court, as a general rule, follows the decisions of her highest court, unless they conflict with or'impair the efficacy of some provision of a federal constitution ,or of a federal statute, or a rule of general commercial law; citing Norton v. Shelby Co., 118 U. S. 425 , 6 Sup. Ct. Rep. 1121 . And this is so where a course of those decisions, whether founded on statutes or not, have become rules of property within the state; also in regard to rules of evidence in actions at Jaw; and also in reference to the common law of the state, and its laws and customs of a local character, when established by repeated decisions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Comstock v. Tracey
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.