McGibbon v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1977 · most notably 1 Cal. 3d 93 - Jones v. H. F. Ahmanson & Co. (1969), United States v. Oregon Lumber Co. (1922)
39 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 Cahill v. Superior Court of S.F. · Agar v. Winslow · Parke & Lacy Co. v. White River Lumber Co. · Liver v. Mills · Rodermund v. . Clark
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The action to recover the purchase money was not based on fraud. It was in the form of an action for money had and received. It could not have been successfully maintained except by proof that the contract had been rescinded, or that defendant had been guilty of a breach thereof. ’ ’”
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.