Gardner v. Schaffer’s Empirical Analysis
120 F.2d 840 · 1941
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1988
12 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley · Fair v. Kohler Die & Specialty Co. · Simon Taylor v. Joe Anderson · Tennessee v. Union & Planters' Bank
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The complaint completely fails to show that plaintiffs have or claim any right or immunity created by any law of the United States. Their assertion that the trustee in bankruptcy claims to be entitled to the securities which they are retaining • to protect themselves against the claim of Schaffer based upon their check, is insufficient to confer juris- - diction upon the court below.””
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.