Gilpatrick v. Glidden’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 1999 · most notably Trustees of Amherst College v. Ritch (1897), Pope v. Garrett (1948)
32 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Glass v. Hulbert · Matter of Will of O'Hara · Olliffe v. Wells · Williams v. . Fitch · Dowd v. Tucker
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““So for like reason, when one obtains the legal title to real or personal estate, either by will or otherwise, under circumstances which render it unconscientious for him to retain it for his own benefit while in fact another is entitled to it, or to some interest in it, equity secures to the latter his right, not by disregarding the former’s legal title but by imposing on him the duty of holding and using his title for the real beneficiary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dutill v. Dana
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.