Oliver v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably Kellum v. Browning's Administrator (1929), DeFevers' v. Brooks (1924)
26 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 Armstrong's Administrator v. Shannon · Bolling v. Bolling's Admr. · Reynolds' Adm'r v. Reynolds · Tolly v. Champion · Bishop v. Newman's
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is firmly established, perhaps without exception, that where parties occupy towards each other a family or domestic relationship and where they occupy the same home and render mutual services for the benefit of all, there will be no implied contract raised in favor of any of them as against any of the others for compensation for such services. This rule not only applies to blood relatives but it likewise includes step-parents and step-children and other strangers in blood who occupy a family or domestic relationship, toward each other.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allnut v. Stewart
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.