Taylor v. Gibbs’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 39 N.C. App. 1 - Wachovia Mortgage Co. v. Autry-Barker-Spurrier Real Estate, Inc. (1978), 59 N.C. App. 280 - Dixon, Odom & Co. v. Sledge (1982)
2 federal appellate · 21 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 Weyerhaeuser Company v. Carolina Power & Light Co. · Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Hood · Green v. Fidelity-Phenix Fire Insurance · Williamson v. Miller · Bailey v. Life Insurance Co. of Virginia
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In substance he asks that the plaintiff be affected by an event that was totally unanticipated by him and by the defendant. If the parties had anticipated a development or governmental action similar to the acreage-poundage control, it should have been inserted as part of the agreement. Since they did not, the law cannot bind the plaintiff to an unforeseen and unexpected eventuality not within the contemplation of either party.”
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.