Gilbert v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
154 federal appellate · 15 district · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 330 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022 · most notably Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper (1980), Lorillard v. Pons (1978)
154 federal appellate · 15 district · 79 state decisions — followed in 20 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
reviewedGilbert v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Glidden Company v. Zdanok Et Al. · Marteney v. United States · Greathouse v. United States · People v. Bendit
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 330 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the 'falsity lies in the representation of facts, not in the genuineness of execution,' it is not forgery.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“) in the statute in its common law sense.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Forgery at common law denotes a false making”
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.