Gordon v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1965
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The newly discovered evidence upon which a new trial was asked was of an impeaching and contradictory character disclosed after verdict by two persons who testified in the' case in behalf of the defendant. It was similar to testimony at the trial, and therefore cumulative. It is not at all probable it would have influenced the verdict, or that upon a retrial it would cause a different result. It is not thought proper or advisable, as a general rule, to grant a new trial on newly discovered evidence that would tend only to contradict or impeach some of the witnesses, or upon evidence that is cumulative in its character. 20 R. C. L. 294, 295, §§ 76 and 77.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ren v. Jones
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.