Gamble v. Gamble’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Pederson v. Potter (2000), 220 Ga. App. 394 - Centrust Mortgage Corp. v. Smith & Jenkins, P. C. (1996)
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 United States v. Oregon Lumber Co. · Sumner v. Sumner · Darling Stores Corporation v. Beatus · Hill v. Cox · Stephens v. Mayor of Macon
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.
“"In order that a judgment or decree should be on the merits, it is not necessary that the litigation should be determined on the merits, in the moral or abstract sense of these words. It is sufficient that the status of the action was such that the parties might have had their suit thus disposed of, if they had properly presented and managed their respective cases."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction shall be conclusive between the same parties and their privies as to all matters put in issue or which under the rules of law might have been put in issue in the cause wherein the judgment was rendered until the judgment is reversed or set aside.”
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.