Gorham Mfg Co v. Wendell’s Empirical Analysis
261 U.S. 1 · 1923
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2009
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 Irwin v. Wright · United States Bernardin v. Butterworth · Richardson v. McChesney · Murphy v. Utter · Saranac Land Timber Company v. James a Roberts
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The inherent difficulty in all these cases is.not in the liability and suability of the successor in a new suit. It is in the shifting from the personal liability of the first officer for threatened tyrong or abuse of his office to the personal liability of his successor when there is no privity between them, as there is not if the officer sued is injuring or is threatening to injure the complainant, without lawful official authority. There is no legal relation between the wrong committed or about to be committed by the oner and that by the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex parte La Prade
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.