The Gloucester’s Empirical Analysis
285 F. 579 · 1923
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1983
4 federal appellate · 2 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“insuperable legal difficulties in the enforcement of [the lien], or because--on the grounds similar to estoppel--to recognize it would be inequitable to other claimants.”
2 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.