Gribben v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 1970 · most notably Blount v. Spratt (1892), Maas v. Dunmyer (1908)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 United States v. George Macdaniel · Van Deusen v. . Sweet · Young v. Stevens · Scanlan v. Cobb · Freed v. Brown
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And where a conveyance or contract is made in ignorance of the insanity, with no advantage taken, and with perfect good faith, a court of equity will not set it aside, if the parties cannot be restored to their original position, and injustice would be done.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edwards v. Miller
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.