Evans v. Gore’s Empirical Analysis
253 U.S. 245 · 1920
Citation profile
101 federal appellate · 39 district · 165 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 457 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Tumey v. State of Ohio (1927), Glidden Company v. Zdanok Lurk (1962)
101 federal appellate · 39 district · 165 state decisions — followed in 29 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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
reviewedEvans v. Gore
Relationships
Relies on M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Eisner v. Macomber · Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. · Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad · Knowlton v. Moore
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 457 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Because of the individual relation of the members of this court to the question, * * * we cannot but regret that its solution falls to us; and this although each member has been paying the tax in respect of his salary voluntarily and in regular course. But jurisdiction of the present case cannot be declined or renounced. The plaintiff was entitled by law to invoke our decision on the question as respects his own compensation, in which no other judge can have any direct personal interest; and there was no other appellate tribunal to which under the law he could go. He brought the case here in due course, * * *. In this situation, the only course open to us is to consider and decide the cause, — a conclusion supported by precedents reaching back many years. * * *. [ 253 U.S. at 247-48 , 40 S.Ct. at 551 .] [Emphasis supplied.]”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is essential to the maintenance of the guaranties, limitations and pervading principles of the Constitution and to the administration of justice without respect to persons and with equal concern for the poor and the rich.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.”
8 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.