Gibson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Dua v. Comcast Cable of Maryland, Inc. (2002), Blackwell v. Com. State Ethics Com'n (1991)
11 federal appellate · 128 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 Linkletter v. Walker · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · William Marbury v. James Madison · England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners · United States Trust Company of New York v. New Jersey
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A law can be repealed by the law giver; but the rights which have been acquired under it, while it was in force, do not thereby cease. It would be an absolute injustice to abolish with the law all the effects it had produced. This is a principle of general jurisprudence; but a right to be within its protection must be a vested right.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the decision establishes a new principle of law by either overruling clear past precedent or involves an issue of first impression, the resolution of which was not clearly foreshadowed, (2) the merits of purely prospective application of the new decision outweigh the disadvantages, based on the history of the rule in question, its purpose and effect, and whether a retrospective application would retard operation of the new law, and (3) the inequity of a retroactive application of the new rule outweighs the benefit of such an application.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[j]udicial decisions have had retrospective operation for near a thousand years.”
3 later decisions 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.