Gilker v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1928
3 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 Keeton's Heirs v. Keeton's Administrator · Warner v. Bennett · Reaume v. Chambers · Callaway County v. Nolley · Wells v. Prince
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The construction put upon the existing statute of limitations as to real actions is, that where ten years have elapsed from the taking effect of the act, the action is barred, although it first accrued under some other act of limitations, which gave a longer period within which to bring it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Telanus v. Simpson
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.