Gaudreau v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 1988
11 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 Bridgeport Machine Co. v. McKnab · Fees v. Ritchey
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any person . . . who shall under contract, express or implied, with . . . the owner of any gas pipe line ... or with the . . . agent of such owner, who shall perform labor or furnish material . . . shall have a lien upon the . . . gas pipe line . . . .””
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.