Gordon v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
210 F.2d 192 · 1954
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2002 · most notably United States v. Smith (1975), Smith v. Clark (1963)
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1732
Relies on United States v. Atkinson · Palmer v. Hoffman · Wells v. Simonds Abrasive Co. · Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Co. v. United States · General Reinsurance Corp. v. Commissioner
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The legislative history of the Business Records Act clearly shows that it was not the intent of the draftsmen to make admissible all evidence, no matter how incompetent or irrelevant, merely by virtue of the fact that it appeared in a record made in the regular course of business.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The testimony was grossly improper. In effect the state policeman, in full uniform was permitted to give the jury his conclusions on the basic issues of the litigation, the very issues they were there to decide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rebmann v. Canning
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.