Gibson v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably Harbor Insurance v. Continental Bank Corp. (1990), Ullsperger v. Meyer (1905)
8 federal appellate · 43 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 Railway Company v. McCarthy · Dresel v. Jordan · Williamson v. Neeves · Seaver v. Hall · Solt v. Anderson
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a party gives a reason for his conduct and decision touching any thing involved in a controversy, he cannot, after litigation has begun, change his ground, and put his conduct upon another and a different consideration. He is not permitted thus to mend his hold.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“by placing his refusal to perform the contract on those grounds he waived all other contentions which he now makes as a reason why he should not perform the contract.”
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.