Gibson v. Pickett’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Fetzer v. Cities Service Oil Co. (1978), National Front Page, LLC v. State Ex Rel. Pryor (2002)
10 federal appellate · 61 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 Kohlenberger, Inc. v. Tyson's Foods, Inc. · Osborn v. Arkansas Territorial Oil & Gas Co. · Schnitt v. McKellar · Wynn v. Sklar & Phillips Oil Company · Carter Oil Company v. Weil
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the four corners of the instrument itself, if that can be done, and when so done, it will control.”
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.