Mead v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Tribull v. Tribull (1956), Gaggers v. Gibson (1942)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 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 Quimby v. Greenhawk · Higgins v. Carlton · Highberger v. Stiffler · Zimmerman v. Bitner · Upman v. Thomey
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * [W]here a conveyance from a parent to a child is attacked, the existence of a confidential relationship between the parties is a fact to be shown, as in any other case where it is not presumed as a matter of law (Upman v. Thomey, supra [ 145 Md. 347 , 125 Atl. 860 (1924)]), and that in such an inquiry advanced age, physical debility, and mental feebleness are all facts, no one of which is necessarily conclusive, but any one of which may have weight in determining whether the relationship as a fact existed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vogt v. Vogt
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.