Gilbert v. Hole’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1958
5 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 National Bank v. Matthews · Cowell v. Springs Co. · Natoma Water & Mining Co. v. Clarkin · De Camp v. Dobbins · Barnes v. Suddard
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think it has been pretty generally held that where a corporation is authorized for some purposes or to a limited extent to take conveyance of and hold real estate, a deed of lands for other purposes, or beyond the limit allowed, is not absolutely void, but passes the title as between the parties, subject only to be inquired into in a direct proceeding by the State.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jordheim v. Bottum““The cases in which the deed to a corporation has been held void and inoperative are those in which suCh corporation, either by its charter or by the law, is forbidden to' acquire real estate at all, — cases in Which it has been held there was an utter want of capacity in the corporation to receive title; * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jordheim v. Bottum
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.