Gibson v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1937
5 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 Houston Oil Co. of Texas v. Kimball · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Hudson · City of San Antonio v. Talerico · Wilson v. Johnson · 42 Tex. Civ. App. 636 - Hahl v. Kellogg
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the wife dies or becomes insane, leaving a surviving husband and child, .or children, the husband shall have the exclusive management, control and disposition of the community property in the same manner as during her lifetime, or sanity; and it shall not be necessary that the insane wife shall join in conveyances of such property, or her privy examination and acknowledgment be taken to such conveyances, subject, however, to the provisions of this chapter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Priddy v. Tabor
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.