In re Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
276 U.S. 294 · 1928
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 19 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 158 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2004 · most notably Finn v. Childs Co. (1950), 20 Wash. 2d 740 - Tucker v. Brown (1944)
67 federal appellate · 19 district · 14 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 Newton v. Consolidated Gas Co. · Finance & Guaranty Co. v. Oppenhimer · In re Gilbert · In Re Abraham S. Gilbert
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 158 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We were desirous of making it clear by our action that the judges of the courts, in fixing allowances for services to court officers, should be most careful, and that -vicarious generosity in such a matter could receive no countenance.””
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.