Ex parte Gerlach’s Empirical Analysis
247 F. 616 · 1917
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2012
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All retainers to the camp and all persons accompanying or serving with the armies of tho United States without tho territorial jurisdiction of the United States, and in time of war all such retainers and persons accompanying or serving with, tho armies of the United States in tire field, both within and without the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, though not otherwise subject to these articles.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex parte Mikell““The words ‘in the field’ do not refer to land only, but to any place, whether on land or water, apart from permanent cantonments or fortifications, where military operations are being conducted.” Ex parte Gerlaeh (D. O.) 247 Fed. 616 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex parte Falls
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.