Gibson v. Warden’s Empirical Analysis
81 U.S. 244 · 1871
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 19 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2002 · most notably York Manufacturing Company v. Arthur Cassell J B (1906), Casey v. Cavaroc (1877)
16 federal appellate · 19 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Hurley v. Street · Gram v. Seton
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A chattel mortgage is only a bill of sale with a defeasance incorporated in it. The presence or absence of that formality is wholly immaterial.””
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.