Giles v. Vette’s Empirical Analysis
263 U.S. 553 · 1924
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2009 · most notably Cohan v. Commissioner (1930), United States v. Coson (1961)
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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
reviewedVette v. Giles (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Logan v. Davis · United States v. Colorado Anthracite Co. · Beecher v. Bush · London Assurance Co. v. Drennen
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who has contributed to the capital of a business conducted by a person or partnership erroneously believing that he has become a limited partner in a limited partnership is not, by reason of his exercise of the rights of a limited partner, a general partner with the person or in the partnership carrying on the business or bound by the obligations of such person or partnership; provided that on ascertaining the mistake he promptly renounces his interest in the profits of the business or other compensation by way of income.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ought to be construed liberally, and with appropriate regard for the legislative purpose to relieve from the strictness of the earlier statutes and decisions.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“would give creditors what they are not entitled to have”
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.