Gibney v. . State’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently January 1998 · most notably Wagner v. International Railway Co. (1921), Browning v. Wabash Western Railway Co. (1894)
4 federal appellate · 50 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Eckert v. . the Long Island Railroad 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the peril to which the child was exposed was, as has been found, the result of the negligence of the state, and the peril to which the father exposed himself was the natural consequence of the situation, It would have been in contradiction of the most common facts in human experience if the father had not plunged into the canal to save his child.””
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.