Gordon v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 1982 · most notably Rader v. Prather (1930), Thompson v. Coe (1921)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Moore v. Sanford · Mactier v. Osborn · Dickinson v. Todd · Giles v. . Austin · Lundin v. Schoeffel
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The ground on which a tenant gets relief in equity from the forfeiture of his estate for a failure to pay rent is that in equity the landlord’s right of re-entry is given as security for the payment of the rent, and on the rent being paid the very thing is done for which the security was given.””
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.