Glus v. Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
462 federal appellate · 118 district · 276 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,346 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs (1991), American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah (1974)
462 federal appellate · 118 district · 276 state decisions — followed in 33 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
reviewedGlus v. Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Reynolds v. States · The Harrisburg · Abel v. United States
Cited together with Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Burnett v. New York Central Railroad · Exploration Co. v. United States · Bailey Assignee v. Glover et al. · Conley v. Gibson
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 1,346 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no man may take advantage of his own wrong.”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]here one party has by his representation or his conduct induced the other party to a transaction to give him an advantage which it would be against equity and good conscience for him to assert, he would not in a court of justice be permitted to avail himself of the advantage .... [T]he general doctrine is well understood and is applied by courts of law as well as equity where the technical advantage thus obtained is set up and relied on to defeat the ends of justice or establish a dishonest claim.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if he can prove that respondent's responsible agents ... conducted themselves in such a way that petitioner was justifiably misled into a good-faith belief that he could begin his action at any time within seven years after it had accrued.”
12 later decisions 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.