Gibson v. Main’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Old Time Petroleum Co. v. Turcol (1931), Alliegro v. Home Owners of Edgewood Hills (1956)
35 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 Wright v. Scotton · 13 Del. Ch. 351 - Foreman's Systems, Inc. v. Milk Dealers' Crate Corp. · Smith's Estate · Fisher Electric Co. v. Bath Iron Works · Sullivan v. Sprung
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. That restrictions in a deed are to be taken most strongly against the grantor, and where the meaning of a restriction is doubtful, the doubt shall be resolved in favor of the grantee. “2. In deciding what is meant by restricting words the intention of the grantor must govern, and such intention may be ascertained from the restricting words themselves, or from those words taken in connection with other words in the deed. “Another principle of law equally well settled is, that common and ordinary words must be given the meaning that they are ordinarily understood to have.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.