Gibson v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 1981
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 Reinders v. Koppelmann · Donaldson v. Allen · Barnard v. Keathley · Stewart v. Jones · Sikemeier v. Galvin
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.
“But to abolish this trust would, for all practical purposes, be but an idle ceremony, in any event. Under the undisputed facts in this case, we cannot see how the court, in the event the trust were annulled, could do otherwise than adjudge Miss Gibson to be the owner of a life estate in the lands in question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hughes v. Neely“to annul or otherwise terminate trusts under appropriate circumstances, as where the purposes of the trust have been accomplished or their accomplishment has become impossible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hughes v. Neely“a short time, vindicate the wisdom of the testator, and emblazon the folly of the court.”
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.