Gibson v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2018
1 district · 18 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 Barrett v. . the Third Avenue R.R. Co. · Christianson v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co. · Mandeville v. . Reynolds · Union Mutual Life Insurance v. Buchanan · Smith v. Delaware Insurance
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general trend of authority in other states, where the question has been presented and passed upon, sustains the proposition that an attorney has not by implication the right to compromise his client’s cause of action, and, though the courts are not in full harmony upon the subject, the great preponderance of the adjudicated cases agree in so declaring the law.””
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.