Givens v. Goldstein’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2019
8 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 Jefferson & Clearfield Coal & Iron Co. v. United States · Earn Line S. S. Co. v. Sutherland S. S. Co. · Moffat Tunnel Improvement District v. Denver & Salt Lake Ry. Co. · Illinois Fuel Co. v. Mobile & Ohio Railroad · 57 Cal. App. 2d 239 - Eggert v. Pacific States Savings & Loan Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not a party to the action, but is merely a friend of the court whose sole function is to advise, or make suggestions to, the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]n amicus curiae must take the case as he finds it, with the issues made by the principal parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.