Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Refining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
283 U.S. 494 · 1931
Citation profile
739 federal appellate · 108 district · 205 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,498 later decisions (33 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Gregg v. Georgia (1976), Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore (1979)
739 federal appellate · 108 district · 205 state decisions — followed in 33 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
reviewedGasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Refining Co. (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on In Re Peterson · Slocum v. New York Life Insurance · Herron v. Southern Pacific Co. · Walker v. New Mexico & Southern Pacific Railroad
Cited together with Dimick v. Schiedt · In Re Peterson · Galloway v. United States · Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Walker v. New Mexico & Southern Pacific Railroad
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 1,498 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the practice permits a partial new trial, it may not properly be resorted to unless it clearly appears that the issue to be retried is so distinct and separable from the others that a trial of it alone may be had without injustice.”
86 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e are not now concerned with the form of the ancient rule. It is the Constitution which we are to interpret; and the Constitution is concerned, not with form, but with substance. All of vital significance in trial by jury is that issues of fact be submitted for determination with such instructions and guidance by the court as will afford opportunity for that consideration by the jury which was secured by the rules governing trials at common law. Beyond this, the Seventh Amendment does not exact the retention of old forms of procedure. It does not prohibit the introduction of new methods for ascertaining what facts are in issue....”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.”
7 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.