Gibson v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 1998
23 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 Jacobs v. Brewster · Pitzman v. Boyce · Roberts v. Quisenberry · Gibson v. Sharp · Goll v. Chicago & Alton Railway Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is a further doctrine comporting with reason and justice and recognized as clear equity, viz., that a license to use a way or an easement, though without consideration at its inception, may not be revoked at will where, from the very nature of the license, the licensee was expected to go to great expense in order to enjoy it and where that expense has been incurred. In such case equitable estoppel arises and the relations of the parties may not be severed and the easement destroyed at the whim and by the act of the licensor alone. They must be severed, if at all, on equitable principles.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allee v. Kirk““ * * * Missouri follows the ‘common enemy’ doctrine, and with certain exceptions not here involved a landowner may dam against surface water even though in so doing he casts it back upon his neighbor. City of Hardin v. Norborne Land Drainage Dist., 360 Mo. 1112 , 232 S.W.2d 921 ; Goll v. Chicago & A. R. Co., 271 Mo. 655 , 197 S.W. 244 ; 12 A.L.R.2d at page 1341. * * * ””
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.