Gilmer v. Gilmer’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 1987 · most notably McCall v. Nettles (1948), American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees v. Dawkins (1958)
32 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 Henderson v. Henderson · Hoglan v. Moore · Ashurst v. Ashurst · Upshaw v. Eubank · Badham v. Johnston
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"As a general principle when a trustee is in reasonable doubt as to the extent of his powers or as to the proper manner in which to proceed under the trust, he may apply to a court of equity, which will interpret the trust instrument when necessary and when it is ambiguous in order to give him directions without other equity appearing in the bill. . . ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“an actual concrete controversy as to any particular matter justiciable in nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Werneth v. Hanly
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.