Gilbert v. Rothschild’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 1997 · most notably MacLeod v. Edelman (1939), Lerner v. Commissioner (1950)
7 federal appellate · 18 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 Adams v. . Gillig · Pimpinello v. Swift & Co. · Gould v. . Cayuga County National Bank · Vail v. . Reynolds · Kirchner v. New Home Sewing MacHine Co.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“he may not litigate his claim for damages while clinging to the fruits of the contract which he affects to disaffirm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * [Recission] can be effective only by returning or tendering back the consideration received.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.