Gillis v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 1991 · most notably Sealy v. McElroy (1972), 340 So. 2d 818 - Chandler v. Hunter (1976)
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 Farmers' Bank & Trust Co. v. Shut & Keihn · Whiteside v. Jennings · Sprague v. Morgan · Gillaspie v. Wesson
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the principal was bound, as intended, the agent cannot be held liable on any principle of law or justice.”
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.