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Glanzer v. . Shepard’s Empirical Analysis

1922

Citation profile

802
cited by 802 later decisions
6
cited 6 times by the Supreme Court
39
states following
April 2021
most recently cited

134 federal appellate · 42 district · 450 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 802 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2021 · most notably Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder (1976), United States v. Neustadt (1961)

134 federal appellate · 42 district · 450 state decisions — followed in 39 states

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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.

Appellate journey

reviewedGlanzer v. Shepard

Relationships

Relies on MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. · Lawrence v. . Fox · Savings Bank v. Ward · Seaver v. . Ransom · Bank of Batavia v. New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad

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 802 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “It is ancient learning that one who assumes to act, even though gratuitously, may thereby become subject to the duty of acting carefully, if he acts at all.”
    22 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC v. Rawson · Collins v. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
  2. ““ * * * The defendants, acting, not casually nor as mere servants, but in the pursuit of an independent calling weighed and certified at the order of one with the very end and aim of shaping the conduct of another. Diligence was owing, not only to him who ordered, but to him also who relied.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. American Casualty Co. of Reading, Pa. v. Memorial Hosp. Ass'n
  3. “were accepted and paid for on the faith of the certificates”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 1ST AMERICAN TITLE INS. v. 1st Title Serv. Co.

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.