Gerst v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 1983 · most notably Gerst v. Nixon (1966), Gerst v. Oak Cliff Savings and Loan Association (1968)
32 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 Brazosport Saving & Loan Ass'n v. American Savings & Loan Ass'n · Southwestern Sav. & L. Ass'n of Houston v. Falkner · Phillips v. Brazosport Savings & Loan Association · Gibraltar Savings & Loan Association v. Falkner · Benson v. San Antonio Savings Association
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Competition is the lifeblood of a free enterprise economic system. It is only because savings and loan associations are affected with a public interest, Brazosport Savings & Loan Ass’n v. American Savings & Loan Ass’n, 161 Tex. 543 , 342 S.W.2d 747 , that they are protected from undue injury brought about by excessive competition.” (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Each substantial evidence case must be decided on its own facts, and the facts in two such cases will rarely be the same.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * his findings could not be arbitrary or capricious, but must have had support in substantial evidence. * * *»”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gerst v. Nixon · Gerst v. Nixon
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.