Gaskin v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Petition of Kinscherff (1976), Vulcan Materials Co. v. Greenville County Board of Zoning Appeals (2000)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 Assets Realization Corporation v. Hull American-Hawaiian Ss Co
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . As long as the members are present in the council chambers and have an opportunity to act and vote with the others, it is their duty to act, and they will be regarded as present for the purpose of making a quorum and rendering legal the action of the council."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. (1974)“If a quorum is present, a majority of a quorum is sufficient to act and bind the entire body. The members who are present at a meeting cannot by a mere refusal to vote defeat the action of the majority of those voting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] majority of a * whole body is necessary to constitute a quorum ..., and no valid act can be done in the absence of a quorum.”
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.