Gavin v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably State v. Gilbert (1966), Jennings v. Murdock (1976)
46 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 Koons v. Mellett · State Ex Rel. Booth v. Beck Jewelry Enterprises, Inc. · 99 Ind. App. 31 - Haas v. Wishmier's Estate · 101 Ind. App. 590 - Sellers, Admr. v. Milford, Tr. · Rogers v. State ex rel. Beatty
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . The right to recover attorneys’ fees from one’s opponent does not exist in the absence of a statute or some agreement, though a court of equity may, under some circumstances, allow attorneys’ fees to be paid out of a fund brought under its control. . . .””
2 later decisions 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.