Guaranty Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Green Cove Springs & Melrose Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
139 U.S. 137 · 1891
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 27 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 237 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1996 · most notably Grannis v. Ordean (1914), Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad (1893)
71 federal appellate · 27 district · 62 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Cooper v. Reynolds · De La Fayette Wilcox v. John Jackson · Galpin v. Page · Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad & Steamship Co. v. Texas Central Railway Co.
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 237 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the provisions of the mortgage concerning foreclosure were subject to the construction that they are exclusive of all right to resort to a court of equity, then they would be invalid, as intended to oust the jurisdiction of the court, which by the uniform current of authority cannot be done.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We think that where the term month is used in an order of this kind, and no other meaning is given to it by the terms of such order, it should be construed as meaning a calendar month. Such is the common understanding of the term, and such has been the practical construction of the word in this State in matters of practice. In England, it is said to have originally meant, at common law, a lunar month, or twenty-eight days * * * The decisions of the State courts are not reconcilable. We prefer those which favor a construction of it as a calendar month, and such is the view of the Supreme Court of the United States.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is an equally settled rule of jurisprudence that the jurisdiction of any court exercising authority over a subject may be inquired into in every other court; when the proceedinsis in the former are relied upon and brought before tile latter by a party claiming the benefit of such proceedings. The rule prevails whether the decree or judgment lias been given in a court of admiralty, chancery, ecclesiastical court, or court of common law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dexter v. Sayward
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.