Gleason v. Thaw’s Empirical Analysis
236 U.S. 558 · 1915
Citation profile
104 federal appellate · 39 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,376 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Kawaauhau v. Geiger (1998), United States v. Sotelo (1978)
104 federal appellate · 39 district · 22 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedGleason v. Thaw (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Gleason v. Thaw
Cited together with Grogan v. Garner · Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Brown III v. Felsen · Kawaauhau v. Geiger · Lines v. Frederick
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 1,376 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“denotes something subject to ownership, transfer, or exclusive possession and enjoyment, which may be brought within the dominion and control of a court through some recognized process.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n view of the well-known purposes of the [bankruptcy laws], exceptions to the operations of a discharge should be confined to those plainly expressed.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for obtaining property by false pretenses or false representations”
3 later decisions 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.