Lewis v. Gramil Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Sedell v. Sedell (1958), 103 So. 2d 192 - In Re Lieber's Estate (1958)
28 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 W. & W. Corp. v. Feit · Hazen v. Stevens
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The very nature of these allowances, constituting, as they do, enforceable costs in a court of justice, command and should receive the closest scrutiny of the courts and should never be awarded in a perfunctory proceeding.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“that while sufficient fees should be allowed to induce competent persons to serve as receiver, ... receiverships should be administered as economically as reasonably possible, and therefore allowances for services performed by court officers must be just but should be moderate rather than generous.”
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.