Gibbons v. Brandt’s Empirical Analysis
170 F.2d 385 · 1947
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Mills Acquisition Co. v. MacMillan, Inc. (1989), Nicolet, Inc. v. Nutt (1987)
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 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 Johnson v. Waters · Leonard v. Springer · People Ex Rel. Chicago Bar Ass'n v. Gilmore · Gibbons v. Cannaven · Holbrook v. Debo
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A single word, even a nod or a wink or a shake of the head or a smile or gesture intended to induce another to believe in the existence of a nonexisting fact may be fraud.”
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.