Gordon v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
189 F.2d 76 · 1951
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1989
12 federal appellate · 2 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 Blossom v. The Milwaukee Railroad Company · Camden v. Mayhew · Blossom v. Railroad Co. · In re Rival Knitting Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * I/We do further agree that this sale is subject to confirmation by the U. S. Court, and in the event I/we do not completely perform within said thirty (30) days the seller may retain the 10% deposit as liquidated damages or compel specific performance hereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gordon v. Woods
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.