Guzman v. Pichirilo’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
312 federal appellate · 43 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 598 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Reed v. Steamship Yaka (1963), United States v. City of Chicago (1977)
312 federal appellate · 43 district · 54 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
reviewedRuiz Pichirilo v. Maysonet Guzman (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · McAllister v. United States · Rogers v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · United States v. Oregon State Medical Society · In Re Disbarment of Isserman
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 598 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“tantamount to, though just short of, an outright transfer of ownership.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A finding is clearly erroneous when 'although there is evidence to support it, the reviewing court on the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]ourts are reluctant to find a demise when the dealings between the parties are consistent with any lesser relationship.”
4 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.