153 Pa. Super. 413 - Gibson Estate’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2014
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Nixon v. Nixon · Boles's Estate · New Jersey Suburban Water Co. v. Town of Harrison · Braunschweiger's Estate · Brennan's Estate
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The orphan's court within its jurisdiction is a court of equity, and has full power as a chancellor to grant relief; and being a court of equity it is guided by the principles of equity, although its jurisdiction is special and derived entirely from statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re ILP
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.