Sproul v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 18 Cal. App. 3d 717 - Board of Supervisors v. Archer (1971), Batchelor v. Charley (1965)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 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
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 32 · 43 U.S.C. § 315 · 43 U.S.C. § 315B · 43 U.S.C. § 869 (Recreation and Public Purposes Amendment)
Relies on Buford v. Houtz
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“revocable privilege to use land in the possession of another.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“We are required to determine whether the right to use bargained for by the transferee is substantial enough to warrant giving him the benefits (or imposing upon him the burdens) which legal tradition has attached to possessory interests. Generally the substantiality of the occupant’s interest is tested by the inquiry: Does he have sufficient control over the premises to warrant the label of possession?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There is ample authority for the proposition that a leasehold or other corporeal interest may be created even though the transferee has the right to use the premises only for a specified limited purpose.”
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.