Stephen Otis Joseph Gassman v. E a Parker’s Empirical Analysis
187 U.S. 606 · 1903
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 21 district · 131 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 299 later decisions (39 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2013 · most notably Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1934), Nebbia v. People of State of New York (1934)
34 federal appellate · 21 district · 131 state decisions — followed in 30 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 Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Lawton v. Steele · Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · Alfred Booth v. People of the State of Illinois
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 299 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may seem to the judges who pass upon it, excessive, unsuited to its ostensible end, or based on conceptions of morality with which they disagree.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We cannot say that there might not be conditions of public delirium in which at least a temporary prohibition of sales on margins would be a salutary thing. Still less can we say that there might not be conditions in which it reasonably might be thought a salutary thing, even if we disagreed with the opinion.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wiseman v. Tanner · State v. Pitney“It is said that in California, when the Constitution was adopted, the whole people were buying mining stocks in this way [on margin] with the result of infinite disaster. [Citation.] ... Inserting [article IV, section 26] in the Constitution showed, as we have said, the conviction of the people at large that prohibition was a proper means of stopping the evil.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.