Watson v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1992
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 William Ensign v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania No 123 Charles a Ensign · Hindman v. First Nat. Bank of Louisville · Sullivan v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co. · Bacon v. United States · Ludowese v. Amidon
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 testimony of a party that he relied upon representations made to him is at most only a statement as to his own mental reaction or state of mind. While he may directly so testify, such facts as intent, belief, and reliance are perhaps more cogently shown by the facts and circumstances surrounding a transaction and the acts of the parties in relation thereto.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Witzig v. Philips
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.