Gibbs v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 1987 · most notably Simon Zunamon v. W. G. Brown, J. P. Brown, Sr., and J. E. (Doc) Brown (1969), Stolz v. Franklin (1975)
3 federal appellate · 34 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 Pearman v. Pearman
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that the defendant filed an answer setting up title in herself by adverse possession, but she did this by way of defense to the plaintiff’s action, and did not ask affirmative relief for herself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Foster v. Whitlow
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.