People v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
1820
Citation profile
1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1957
1 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ In a representative government, where the people do not and cannot legally act in a body, where their power is delegated to others, and of necessity must be exercised by them, if exercised at all, the reason for applying the maxim is equally cogent. . . . On the ground of expediency and public convenience, this was necessary. As an attribute of sovereignty, it was equally important to be preserved.” People v. Gilbert, 18 Johns. 229 .”
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.