Finberg v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently November 1987 · most notably Taylor v. Higgins Oil & Fuel Co. (1928), Wilson v. Giraud (1921)
55 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“from a consideration of all these, in connection with the facts surrounding the parties, and the transaction to which the parties looked at the time the patent was issued”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“as throwing light on or as corroborative of the location of the land in suit as originally fixed and placed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gilbert v. Finberg
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.