Gibbons v. Heiskell’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2012
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Hogan v. Kurtz · Ruff's Adm'r. v. Bull
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the statute of limitations once begins to run on a claim, its operation is not suspended by the fact that a suit was instituted in a foreign jurisdiction which was dismissed before judgment, and the statute is a bar to another suit on the same claim instituted in this jurisdiction after the expiration of the time limited.””
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.