Williams v. Gibbes’s Empirical Analysis
61 U.S. 535 · 1857
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1961 · most notably Randolph v. Scruggs (1903), Sutton v. United States (1921)
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 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 Williams v. Gibbes · George Gill Trustee of Lyde Goodwin v. Robert Oliver's Executors and Glenn and Perrine Trustees
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Courts of equity, it would seem, do not grant, active relief in favor of a bona fide purchaser, making permanent meliorations or improvements, by sustaining a bill brought by him against the true owner, after he has succeeded in recovering the property at law.””
1 later decision 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.