Rothwell v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1921
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Harris v. Runnels · Tri-State Amusement Co. v. Forest Park Highlands Amusement Co. · Lester v. Howard Bank · Downing v. Ringer · Tooker v. Duckworth
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The case is also distinguishable from tho Missouri license casos, supra, in this: The statutes requiring a merchant and real estate broker to take out a license to do business are mere excise laws, enacted for the purpose of raising revenue. No private individual has any special interest in them, nor were they enacted for the purpose of protecting the interests of private individuals, and hence no individual is in a position to invoke their noncompliance to defeat his contracts with an unlicensed merchant or real estate broker.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reichardt v. Hill
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.