Gateley v. Humphrey’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably Huff v. Fidelity Union Life Insurance Company (1958), Melvin E. Hatley, Cross-Appellant v. The American Quarter Horse Association, Cross-Appellees (1977)
5 federal appellate · 67 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 Simmons v. Arnim · Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Cade · Hurt v. Cooper · Texas Highway Commission v. El Paso Building & Construction Trades Council · Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Mahaffey
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Thus the language of the Article [2226] as it now exists is plain and seems clearly to authorize the recovery of attorney's fees if a claim is not paid within thirty days of presentation, and this wholly without reference to whether or when suit is filed."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Ordinarily, the mere fact that significant words are omitted from the re-enactment or amendment of a statute imports a conclusive presumption that the Legislature intended to exclude the object theretofore accomplished by the abandoned words.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. State
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.