Gospel Army v. City of Los Angeles’s Empirical Analysis
331 U.S. 543 · 1947
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Urie v. Thompson (1949), Rescue Army v. Municipal Court of Los Angeles (1947)
42 federal appellate · 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Rescue Army v. Municipal Court of Los Angeles · Richfield Oil Corporation v. State Board of Equalization · Clark v. Williard · Department of Banking State of Nebraska v. Pink · Haseltine v. Central Bank of Springfield
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nder California law, the Gospel Army on the second trial to which it is entitled may amend its complaint and present new facts. Such a reversal remands the case for a new trial and places the parties in the same position as if the case had never been tried .... [On retrial, the] law must be applied by the trial court to the evidence presented [at] the second trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Maestas“end the litigation by fully determining the rights of the parties”
1 later decision 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.