Gibson v. Thornton’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1959
2 district · 14 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 Havemeyer v. Superior Court · Baker v. Administrator of Backus · People Ex Rel. Fowler v. Bull · People v. Weigley · Belmont v. Erie Railway Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a court of equity cannot dissolve a corporation, can if, do what would be—certainly in a ease of the present character—tantamount to the same thing, that is, appoint a receiver, sequester its property, decree a sale of all Its property and franchises and a distribution of the fund arising from such sale among its creditors and stockholders?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In this state such authority has not been conferred upon courts of equity.””
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.