Gordon v. Gilfoil’s Empirical Analysis
99 U.S. 168 · 1878
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 16 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1980 · most notably Kline v. Burke Construction Co. (1922), Hunt v. New York Cotton Exchange (1907)
50 federal appellate · 16 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Harrod v. Voorhies' Administratrix · Fortier v. Zimpel · 4 La. Ann. 322 - Stanbrough v. M'Call · Peterson v. Short
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) “That the pendency of a suit in a state court is no ground * * * for a plea in abatement to a suit upon the same matter in a federal court and (b) “that two causes, one at law and one in equity, are ex necessitate so dissimilar that the pendency of one cannot be pleaded in abatement of the other.” 1 ,”
6 later decisions 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.