Gillis v. State of California’s Empirical Analysis
293 U.S. 62 · 1934
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2012 · most notably 1993-1 Hillis Motors Inc v. Hawaii Automobile Dealers' Association (1993), Palmer v. Webster & Atlas National Bank (1941)
32 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Bessette v. W. B. Conkey Co. · Ex parte Robinson · Ex Parte Tyler · Michaelson v. United States ex rel. Chicago · Erb v. Morasch
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] trustee, receiver or manager appointed in any cause pending in any court of the United States, including a debtor in possession, shall manage and operate the property in his possession as such trustee, receiver or manager according to the requirements of the valid laws of the State in which such property is situated, in the same manner that the owner or possessor thereof would be bound to do if in possession thereof.”
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.