Gamble v. Whitehead’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1977
10 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 Boykin v. Smith · Wood v. Brewer & Brewer · Miller v. Cannon & Co. · Alabama Gold Life Insurance v. Sledge · Dismukes & Patrick v. Tolson & Barrett
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * To hold that testimony of the character introduced in this case falls within the bar of the exception, would be to turn a rule, whose beneficent purpose and policy were to protect estates of deceased persons from false claims and imposition, into a means of avoiding the payment of honest debts.””
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.