Gillette, Libby v. Murphy, Carroll, Brough’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1960 · most notably Voris v. Robbins (1915), Citizens' Nat. Bank of Chickasha v. Mitchell (1909)
26 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. . Ingersoll · Brill v. . Tuttle · Fairbanks v. . Sargent · 1 E.H. Smith 277 - Fortunato v. . Patten · Fairbanks v. . Sargent
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When Gillette & Libby received the assignment of this chose in action from Jackson, it was their duty to ascertain from the county what equities Jackson had to assign, and whether it had had actual notice of any previous assignment. It might, he said, under the record in this case, that, even if Gillette & Libby had made inquiry of the county as to what.it owed Jackson, it would have denied any liability' to him; yet these items were in controversy, and the county had been previously notified of the. execution and delivery of these orders; and it is to be presumed that, had if been asked as to any assignment of the 'IMm. it, through its proper officers, would have answered truthfully.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Keys v. Ponder
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.