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Gibson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1925

Citation profile

66
cited by 66 later decisions
6
states following
November 2005
most recently cited

64 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably Alabama State Federation of Labor v. McAdory (1944), Parker v. Amerson (1987)

64 state decisions

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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 Plumley v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Schollenberger v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Paul · Ballentyne v. Wickersham · Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. State · Ex parte Pollard

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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A Code implies, first, a compilation of existing laws, their systematic arrangement into chapters or articles and sections, with subheads, table of contents, and index for ready reference; second, a revision such as to harmonize conflicts, supply omissions, and generally clarify and make complete the [relevant] body of laws.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[e]ach law shall contain but one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “one of the executive officers of the state.”
    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.