Gormley v. Bunyan’s Empirical Analysis
138 U.S. 623 · 1891
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 9 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1981 · most notably Mills v. Green (1895), Eva Ingersoll v. Joseph a Coram a H (1908)
58 federal appellate · 9 district · 7 state decisions
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 Chapman v. Barney · Leffingwell v. Warren · Amy v. Dubuque · Mandeville and Jamesson v. Wilson
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The only way in which such statutes [of limitation] are available as' a defense is when they are, at the proper time, specially pleaded.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.