Gordon v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2018
17 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 Prall v. Prall · Bagwell v. Bagwell · Coleman v. Coleman
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he test of the identity of causes of action, for the purpose of determining the question of res adjudicata, is the identity of the facts essential to the maintenance of the suits”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“essentially the same as that which she would have been required to present to establish her charge of `indignities to the person', had she pursued her action in Pennsylvania where she was given ample notice and opportunity to be heard.”
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.