Garris v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1994
3 federal appellate · 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 De Forrest v. Coffey · Brown v. Campbell · Richardson v. Superior Court · State ex rel. Godard v. State Bank of Circleville · 113 Cal. App. 661 - People v. Martino
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(als a general principle of law, it has uniformily been held that when a receiver, such as ... an insurance commissioner, has himself been guilty of fraud, he is not above the law, but is amenable to the process of law, and that suit may be instituted against him by a stockholder or creditor to conserve or repossess the assets of the receivership."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Has a general creditor the right to maintain an action of this nature against the insurance commissioner after he, in his official capacity, has been appointed receiver thereof by a court of competent jurisdiction?”
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.