Gibson v. Leonard’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably 20 Ill. 2d 406 - Dini v. Naiditch (1960), 18 Cal. 4th 1057 - Calatayud v. State of California (1998)
4 federal appellate · 84 state decisions — followed in 22 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 Parker v. Barnard · Bell v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad · Heeney v. Sprague · Harty v. . Central R.R. Co. of New Jersey · O'Donnell v. the Providence and Worcester R.R. 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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“refrain from affirmative or willful acts that work an injury.”
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.