Gillespie v. Bobo’s Empirical Analysis
271 F. 641 · 1921
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 1982
7 federal appellate · 11 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 Waterman v. Banks · Kelsey v. Crowther · Young v. Jones · Bailey v. Williams · Ford v. Barton
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The contract states the terms on which the appellees agreed that a termination, on October 30, 1918, of the privilege of drilling or exploring for oil or other minerals, could be prevented. It conferred no right to prevent such termination, otherwise than by a compliance with those terms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Guerra v. Chancellor
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.