Gunning v. Cooley’s Empirical Analysis
30 F.2d 467 · 1929
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1998 · most notably Gunning v. Cooley (1930), Morrison v. MacNamara (1979)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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
Relationships
Relies on Vicksburg v. O'Brien · Richmond Co v. Powers · 9 App. D.C. 26 - Adams v. Washington & Georgetown Railroad · Cayton v. English · Glaria v. Washington Southern Railway 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no basis whatever for the verdict and judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Gunning v. Cooley
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.