Gohld v. Svendsgaard’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1979
3 federal appellate · 7 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 Boynton v. Ball · State of Louisiana Folsom v. Mayor Etc of the City of New Orleans · State of Wisconsin v. Pelican Ins Co of New Orleans · Chase v. Curtis · Clark v. . Rowling
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.
““* * * The law of merger does not forbid all inquiry into the nature of the cause of action. If the prevailing party was entitled to certain privileges, or exemption from certain burdens, under his contract he may be entitled to the same privileges and exemptions under his judgment. Whenever justice requires it, the judgment will generally be construed not as a new debt but as an old debt in a new form.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A judgment merges the cause of action so that the judgment creditor may not maintain another action against the judgment debtor upon the original cause of action. But the doctrine of merger is calculated to promote justice and will be carried no farther than the ends of justice require.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beckett v. Clark
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.