Gibson v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2013
5 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 Landry v. Travelers Insurance Company · Russell v. S. & M. Amusement Co. · Cornelison v. First Nat. Bank of San Angelo
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the question for decision on appeal is whether there was an abuse of the trial court’s discretion, the appellate court is not to substitute its judgment for that of the trial court.... Confirmation of a receiver’s sale by the court is a matter of discretion depending upon the facts of each case, and only an abuse of discretion will be reversed on appeal.”
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.