Gordon v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
105 U.S. 553 · 1881
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 4 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2022 · most notably Southern Development Co of Nevada v. Silva (1888), United States v. Great Northern Railway Co. (1932)
37 federal appellate · 4 district · 31 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 Holbrook v. Connor
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever property of any kind defends for its value upon contingencies which may never occur, or developments which may never be made, opinion as to its value must, necessarily, be more or less of a speculative character; and no action will lie for its expression, however fallacious it may prove., or whatever the injury a reliance upon it may produce.””
2 later decisions 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.