Gaw v. Higham’s Empirical Analysis
267 F.2d 355 · 1959
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 1977
5 federal appellate · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on Shaughnessy v. Pedreiro · Schuckman v. Rubenstein · Kentucky Natural Gas Corp. v. Duggins
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An indispensable party is one who not only has an interest in the controversy but an interest of such a nature that a final decree can not be made without either affecting that interest or leaving the controversy in such a condition that its final determination may be wholly inconsistent with equity and good conscience.” Gaw v. Higham, 267 F.2d 355, 357 (C.A. 6 1959) ; cert. denied 360 U.S. 933 , 79 S.Ct. 1453 , 3 L.Ed.2d 1546 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Diversity [in a declaratory judgment action] must exist between all plaintiffs on the one hand, and all defendants on the other. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Duncan v. Ward
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.