Gibson v. Fullin’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 24 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Peck v. Jacquemin (1985), O'Connor v. O'Connor (1986)
8 federal appellate · 24 district · 60 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 White v. King · Murray v. City of Milford · Breen v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Little v. Ives · Massa v. Nastri
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Connecticut has a strong policy disfavoring retrospective laws affecting substantive rights of the parties.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In determining the governing law, a forum applies its own [conflict of laws] rules ....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen the rights and liabilities of parties to an action result from an occurrence involving a significant relationship in another state, the court in which the action is pending must determine whether its own law or the law of the other state shall be applied”
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.