James Gilmer v. George Poindexter’s Empirical Analysis
51 U.S. 257 · 1850
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1993
10 federal appellate · 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 Nagel v. Mignot · 1 Serg. & Rawle 72 - Long v. Ramsay · Williamson v. Their Creditors · Lanuse v. Barker
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To the success of an estoppel on the part of the grantor against assertion of an after-acquired title it is necessary that his want of a present vested estate should not appear in the deed itself.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“can occur only where a party has conveyed a precise or definite legal estate or right, by a solemn assurance, which he will not be permitted to vary or to deny.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gonzales v. Gonzales
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.