Gardner v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1925
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Gardner v. Brown
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If in any suit... in any State' court against an alien, or by a citizen of the State in which the suit is brought against a citizen of another State ... a citizen of the State in which the suit is brought is a defendant, &c., . ... or if the suit is one in which there can be a final determination of the controversy, so far as it concerns him, without the presence of the other defendants as parties in the cause, then, and in every such ease, the alien defendant, or the defendant who is a citizen of a State other than • that in which the suit is brought may, at any time before the trial or final hearing of the cause, file a petition for the removal of the cause as against him into the next Circuit Court of the United States,.and it shall be thereupon the duty of the State. court to . . . proceed no further in the cause as against the defendant so applying for its removal,. . . and the copies being entered, &e., in such court of the United States, the cause 6hall there proceed in the same manner as if it had been brought there by original process' against the defendant, who shall have so filed a petition for its removal as above provided.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gardner v. Brown“that Walker had never given bond as trustee of said trust, and had taken no steps to foreclose the trust, and did not wish or intend to execute-the same; and that the complainant had the right to have the trust closed by a sale of the lands free from the equity of redemption, and have the proceeds applied, after the payment of all costs incident to the foreclosure, to the satisfaction of his debts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gardner v. Brown“the mere taking the instrument into his hands and retaining it amounts to nothing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gardner v. Brown
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.