Guaranty Trust Co. v. York’s Empirical Analysis
326 U.S. 99 · 1945
Citation profile
1,602 federal appellate · 464 district · 128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,966 later decisions (96 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1971), Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. (1949)
1,602 federal appellate · 464 district · 128 state decisions — followed in 28 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
reviewedYork v. Guaranty Trust Co. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance · Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank
Cited together with Erie Co v. Tompkins · Hanna v. Plumer · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc.
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 3,966 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the outcome of the litigation in the federal court should be substantially the same, so far as legal rules determine the outcome of a litigation, as it would be if tried in a State court.”
51 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“in effect, only another court of the State.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“are the same key-words to very different problems. Neither”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.