Gordon v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently December 1990 · most notably SO. PINE ELEC. POWER ASSN. v. Denson (1952), City of Hattiesburg v. Hillman (1954)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Avery v. Collins · New Deemer Mfg. Co. v. Alexander · Belzoni Hardwood Co. v. Cinquimani · Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Anderson · Westbrook v. Mobile & Ohio Railroad
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In such [death] action the party or parties suing shall recover such damages as the jury may determine to be just, taking into consideration all the damages of every kind to the decedent and all damages of every kind to any and all parties interested in the suit. * * * [I]f the deceased has no husband, nor wife, nor children, the damages shall he distributed equally to the father, mother, brothers and sisters, or such of them as the deceased may have living at his or her death.” (Emphasis added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]hat if a parent leaves a child of tender years unattended temporarily across a highway, even though the parent might know that the child would be likely to undertake to cross the highway in returning home, when the child leaves that place and enters an area of peril, and the child is thereupon injured through the negligence of another person, the parent is not deemed to be contributorily negligent where the accident to 'the child could have been avoided by the defendant through the exercise of reasonable care in keeping a constant lookout for pedestrians who may chance to use the highway.”
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.