Almond v. Gilmer’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Hinchey v. Ogden (1983), Harrison v. Day (1961)
53 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 Bain Peanut Co. v. Pinson · Wyatt v. State Roads Commission · Controversy Between California Toll Bridge Authority & City & County of San Francisco v. Wentworth · Whitlock v. Hawkins · Bloxton v. State Highway Commission
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o constitutionally prohibited indebtedness is created when bonds issued to finance a particular State capital project are to be paid solely from a special fund derived from the revenues of that project; when the legislature is not obligated to appropriate funds for payment of the indebtedness; and, when the indebtedness is not secured by the general faith, credit, and taxing power of the State. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baliles v. Mazur“It is true that the Commission and the State of Virginia may stand by as benevolent protectors of this enterprise of their creation. The one may allocate any funds not otherwise allocated or prohibited, to aid in its acquisition, maintenance and operation, and the other may make such appropriations toward those ends as it may desire. Yet neither is required to assume such philanthropic role.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baliles v. Mazur“[t]he source and only source from which the [bondholders] may force payment is fixed, designated and limited. It is that special fund created by those who pay the tolls and charges for the use of the facilities . . . and none other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Terry v. Mazur
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.