Gilbert v. J’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 32 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Hughes, 622 F. Supp. 737 - Laxalt v. McClatchy (1985)
1 federal appellate · 32 district ·
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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · United States v. Mitchell · Calder v. Jones · Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp.
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a suit against IRS employees in their official capacity is essentially a suit against the United States.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) Service upon the United States shall be effected (A) by delivering a copy of the summons and the complaint to the United States attorney for the district in which •the action is brought or to an assistant United States attorney or clerical employee designated by the United States attorney in a writing filed with the clerk of the court or by sending a copy of the summons and of the complaint by registered or certified mail addressed to the civil process clerk at the office of the United States attorney and (B) by also sending a copy of the summons and of the complaint by registered or certified mail to the Attorney General of the United States at Washington, District of Colombia____ (2)(A) Service on an agency or corporation of the United States, or an officer or employee of the United States sued only in an official capacity, is effected by serving the United States in the manner proscribed by Rule 4(i)(l)----”
1 later decision 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.