Gilbert v. . Finch’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2000 · most notably United States v. The Montreal Trust Company, and Tillie v. Lechtzier, Executors of the Estateof Isidor J. Klein, Deceased (1966), Schubert v. August Schubert Wagon Co. (1928)
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 111 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedGilbert v. Finch
Relationships
Relies on Ellis v. Esson · Whittemore v. Judd Linseed & Sperm Oil Co. · Sloan v. Herrick · Peck v. Ellis · Tallman v. . Bresler
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Maine incorporation was not a stock company. Its officers had no stock in the company which they could sell or transfer, and consequently there was nothing that the Commercial Alliance Company could purchase. The thing accomplished by the transaction was the resignation of the officers of the Maine company and the substitution of the defendants or their representatives.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sheldon v. Bills““Where the,release contains no reservation it operates to discharge all the joint tort-feasors; but where the instrument expressly reserves the right to pursue the others it is not technically a release but a covenant not to sue, and they are not discharged. It follows that the release, so called, did not operate to discharge the defendants.” (Page 466.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edens v. Fletcher““Indeed, we had supposed the policy of the law to be to leave wrongdoers without aid in equity from the burdens of the position in which they have placed themselves. The rule is well settled that, as among themselves, equity would not compel contribution or enforce subrogation.””
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.