Gilfallan v. Gilfallan’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 1997 · most notably 66 Cal. App. 2d 609 - Gibson v. De La Salle Institute (1944), Barnhart Aircraft, Inc. v. Preston (1931)
29 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 Blackwood v. Cutting Packing Co. · Fleishman v. Woods · Wait v. Kern River Mining, Milling, & Developing Co. · Senter v. Davis · McLaughlin v. Piatti
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he buyer would not be legally entitled to dividends upon the stock in the absence of any agreement to that effect, until the legal title to the stock had passed to him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unless there is something in the contract specifying or implying a different intention....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.