Gibbs v. Kiesel’s Empirical Analysis
382 F.2d 917 · 1967
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2000 · most notably Allen v. Seacoast Products, Inc. (1980), Johnson v. Bryant (1982)
15 federal appellate · 2 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 Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc. · Kahm v. United States · Estes v. Texas · Morales v. City of Galveston · Justino Lugo Vega v. The Steamship Malula, Her Engines, Boilers, Etc., and Oscar G. Abello Ameller
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the logical inference is often that the gear or appurtenance would not have broken had it not been defective.”
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.