Gibbs v. Price’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Shevel's, Inc. v. Southeastern Associates, Inc. (1984), Plunkett v. Plunkett (2006)
1 federal appellate · 25 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 Larchmont Properties, Inc. v. Cooperman · Brewer v. Brewer · French v. Chapman
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'clear and satisfactory, leaving but little, if any, doubt of the mistake.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ge Supply, a Division of General Electric Company v. Richard E. Thomas Lois J. Thomas, and Residential Electric, Incorporated, Ge Supply, a Division of General Electric Company v. Richard E. Thomas Lois J. Thomas, and Residential Electric, Incorporated · 45 Va. Cir. 550 - Presidential Lakes Property Owners' Ass'n v. Presidential Lakes Development Co.“Equity has undoubted jurisdiction to reform an instrument if it does not express the intent of the parties. Equity should give effect to the true intent of the parties, despite a contrary intent reflected by a writing the parties mistakenly believed to monument their bargain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The burden on a party seeking to impeach an instrument he has approved by his signature is a heavy one”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Plunkett v. Plunkett
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.