Gilbert v. McCreary’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Sun Oil Co. (1951), 143 W. Va. 845 - Cuppett v. Neilly (1958)
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Holland v. Challen · Waldron v. Harvey · Mylius v. Raine-Andrew Lumber Co. · Adams v. Alkire · Rigdon v. Shirk
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general description is neither legally impossible nor insufficient. Although the lot is not numbered, and the number of the house is not a lot number, it clearly suffices for designation of the subject of the devise. The house is part of the property devised, and its designation in the will as ‘No. 114 Tenth street’ constitutes an index or means by which it can be found and identified.””
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.