Guessefeldt v. McGrath’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
140 federal appellate · 30 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 274 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2003 · most notably Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. Rogers (1958), Harisiades v. Shaughnessy (1951)
140 federal appellate · 30 district · 17 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
reviewedGuessefeldt v. McGrath (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc. · Markham v. Cabell · Johnson v. Eisentrager · Clark v. Uebersee Finanz-Korp. · Central Union Trust Co of New York v. Garvan Merrill
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 274 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“implies something more than mere physical presence and something less than domicile”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(a) Any individual, partnership, or other body of individuals, of any nationality, resident within the territory * * * of any nation with which the United States is at war * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“No property or interest therein of Germany, Japan, or any national of either such country vested in or transferred to any officer or agency of the Government at any time after December 17, 1941, pursuant to the provisions of this Act [sections 1-6 and 7-39 of this Appendix], shall be returned to former owners thereof or their successors in interest, and the United States shall not pay compensation for any such property or interest therein. The net proceeds remaining upon the completion of administration, liquidation, and disposition pursuant to the provisions of this Act of any such property or interest therein shall be covered into the Treasury at the earliest practicable date ...”
1 later decision 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.