Gilfether v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 181 Cal. App. 2d 367 - Williams v. Binkley (1960), Gerlach Mercantile Co. v. Hughes-Bozarth-Anderson Co. (1916)
26 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 Kelly's Heirs v. McGuire · Estate of Kirkendall · Ryan v. Andrews · Rowley v. Stray · Robertson v. Burrell
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can, therefore, apply only to the class described in the first, or, in other words, to the class from which it constitutes an exception, which is, kindred 'in the same degree'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Belshaw“The section in question consists of two clauses connected by the conjunction 'unless,' which, as said by Lord Mansfield ... 'means the same as "except,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A discrimination against the half blood is the exception, and is not to be extended beyond the obvious intent.”
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.