Gordon v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
295 U.S. 30 · 1935
Citation profile
94 federal appellate · 36 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 247 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Grupo Mexicano Desarrollos v. Alliance Bond Fund Inc, Meredith v. City of Winter Haven (1943)
94 federal appellate · 36 district · 5 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
reviewedGordon v. Washington (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Waterman v. Canal-Louisiana Bank & Trust Co. · Penn General Casualty Co v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Schnader · Lion Bonding & Surety Co. v. Karatz · Pennsylvania v. Williams · Hollins v. Brierfield Coal & Iron 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 247 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the summary remedy by receivership, with the attendant burdensome expense should be resorted to only on a plain showing of some threatened loss or injury to the property, which the receivership would avoid.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to preserve and protect the property pending its final disposition.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“From the beginning, the phrase `suits in equity' has been understood to refer to suits in which relief is sought according to the principles applied by the English Court of Chancery before 1789, as they have been developed in the federal courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. SEC v. Wing
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.