Gardner v. McDowell’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Bradford v. Mahan (1976), Keith v. Schiefen-Stockham Insurance Agency, Inc. (1972)
2 federal appellate · 30 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 New Yorker Magazine, Inc. v. Gerosa · National Theatres Corp. v. Bertha Building Corp. · Cuiksa v. City of Mansfield · 223 F. Supp. 731 - Jordan v. Kelly · Pfannenstiel v. Doerfler
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. • • Under the decisions of this court the city is immune from liability for the acts of its police officers. . . . Similar decisions have been handed down by federal courts. (See Cuiksa v. City of Mansfield, 250 F. 2d 700 , cert. den. 356 U. S. 937 , 2 L. Ed. 2d 813 , 78 S. Ct. 779 .” (p. 708.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is alleged they used unlawful and unnecessary force to apprehend the decedent in that they carelessly, negligently, wilfully and wantonly shot the decedent at point blank range of less than five feet”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nder the posture of the case as it comes to us we are not at liberty to consider facts alleged by the officers in the answer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.