Gouge v. David’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2025
9 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 United States v. American Trucking Associations · Fishgold v. Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corp. · Helvering v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. · Brooks v. Dewar · Twohy Bros. v. Ochoco Irrigation District
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`In the construction of a statute * * the office of the judge is simply to ascertain and declare what is, in terms or in substance, contained therein, not to insert what has been omitted * * *.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of Gronquist
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.