In Re Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2006 · most notably State v. Hines (1967), Lublin v. Brown (1975)
44 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Ex parte Garland · Cummings v. The State of Missouri · Middleton v. Texas Power & Light Co. · Clark v. Poor · Brydonjack v. State Bar
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Perhaps more often than otherwise, the Legislature has created such boards without attempting to give them corporate character, instances of which are the creation of the state highway commission, section 64-301, Comp.1929, held in Looney v. Stryker, 31 N.M. 557 , 249 P. 112 , 50 A.L.R. 1404 , a mere governmental agency; the state board of medical examiners, state board of education, and numerous others. The functions of these boards are substantially the same, whether incorporated or not. * * * ””
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.