State v. Gilder’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Brilz v. Metropolitan General Insurance (2012), Dorwart v. Caraway (2002)
27 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 Arizona v. California · Messenger v. Anderson · Rosewell Messinger v. Peter Anderson · Southern Railway Co. v. Clift · Thomas v. Bible
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On remand, the trial court may consider or decide any matters left open by the appellate court and is free to make any order in further progress of the case, not inconsistent with the decision of the appellate court, as to any question not presented or settled by that decision .... 5 Am. Jur. 2d 420, 421, Appeal and Error, §§ 992 (1962).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the absence of statute the phrase, law of the case, as applied to the effect of previous orders on the later action rendering them in the same case, merely expresses the practice of courts generally to refuse to reopen what has been decided, not a limit to their power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dorwart v. Caraway
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.