Holmes v. . Gilman’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1995 · most notably Chase Nat Bank of City of New York v. United States (1929), German Alliance Insurance Company v. Ike Lewis (1914)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 120 state decisions — followed in 24 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 Central Nat Bank v. Hume Hume · Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Schaefer · Whitehead v. . New York Life Ins. Co. · Van Alen v. . American National Bank · Riddle v. Whitehill
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right has its basis in the right of property, and the court proceeds on the principle that the title has not been affected by the change made of the trust funds, and the cestui que trust has his option to claim the property and its increased value as representing his. original fund. The right to follow and appropriate ceases only when the means of ascertainment fail. It is a question of title.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rugger v. Hammond
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.