Gillespie v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Gaymon v. Gaymon (1999), Lynchburg College v. Central Fidelity Bank (1991)
36 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 Smith v. Trustees of the Baptist Orphanage · Coffman's Adm'r v. Coffman · Baliles v. Miller · Carson v. Simmons · Clark v. Strother
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here are various ways of expressing the same thought and there are many different shades of meaning which a group of words may convey; individuals differ in their knowledge of grammar and in their manner of expression.”
3 later decisions 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.