Gessler v. Erwin Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2004
1 federal appellate · 5 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 United Drug Co. v. Theodore Rectanus Co. · Saxlehner v. Eisner & Mendelson Co. · Columbia Mill Co. v. Alcorn · Fergen v. Lyons · Manningt v. Galland-Henning Pneumatic Malting Drum Manufacturing
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Where a party stipulates that another shall do a certain thing, he thereby impliedly promises that he will himself do nothing which will hinder or obstruct that other in doing that thing ....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]here was also an implied agreement by both parties that neither would do any act preventing or tending to prevent its performance....”
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.