People v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Westover v. State (1947), Grandbouche v. People (1939)
48 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Wilson v. United States · State ex rel. Young v. Robinson · State v. Bowles · State ex rel. Nolan v. District Court of First Judicial District · Williams v. People
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The maxim, expressio unius est exclusio alterius, is not of universal application in the construction of statutes. The legislative intention is to be taken according to the necessity of the matter and according to that which is consonant to reason and sound discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. YDM““The statute under consideration, imposing specific duties upon county attorneys in the matter of its enforcement, is in no proper view a limitation upon, nor does it exclude, the general authority of the Attorney General upon the same subject.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“are parts of one system, governed by one spirit and policy, and must be construed, if possible, so as to be consistent and harmonious one with the other and in their several parts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Noline
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.