Tibbs v. Zirkle’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 1979
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 12 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 Weaver v. Burr · Dyer v. Duffy · Eclipse Oil Co. v. South Penn Oil Co. · Webb v. Bailey · Hotchkiss v. Fitzgerald Patent Prepared Plaster Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For the time being it prevents a sale, it matters not what the event thereof may be, and if ZirMe had authority to give an option for three months, he had the right to extend such option for three years, and in this manner he might indefinitely tie up the property and prevent instead of securing a sale thereof.””
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.