United States v. Gomez’s Empirical Analysis
64 U.S. 326 · 1859
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2008
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A motion to docket and dismiss a cause from the failure of the appellant to file the record within the Lime required by the rule of this court, when granted, is not an affirmance of the judgment of the court below. It only remits the ease to the court below to have proceedings 1» carry that judgment into effect, if in the condition oí the case there is nothing to prevent it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Lee
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.