State ex rel. Gardner v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 2007
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 McDermott v. Claas · Walsh v. Pulitzer Publishing Co. · State ex rel. Kleinsorge v. Meyer · State ex rel. Heitkamp v. Ryland · State ex rel. Covenant Mutual Life Insurance v. Balmer
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule of construction applicable to a pleading is varied by the stage of the case at which the petition, answer, or reply may be considered; while the pleading is more rigidly construed before verdict, a relaxed and more favorable rule obtains after verdict, and every reasonable intendment is then brought to aid the pleading assailed.”
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.