Decker v. . Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1964 · most notably Propper v. Clark (1949), Stokes v. . Hoffman House of New York (1901)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 68 state decisions — followed in 16 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 United States Trust Co. v. New York West Shore & Buffalo Railway Co. · Herring v. . N.Y., L.E. W.R.R. Co. · Keeney v. . Home Insurance Company · Pringle v. . Woolworth · Kincaid v. . Dwinelle
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such receivers possessed no legal powers. They were officers of the court merely, and their functions were limited to the care and preservation of the property committed to their charge, and they possessed no authority except such as the orders of the court conferred.””
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.