Gardner v. . Ogden’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1990 · most notably Beatty v. . Guggenheim Exploration Co. (1919), Souffront v. La Compagnie Des Sucreries De Porto Rico (1910)
6 federal appellate · 97 state decisions — followed in 29 states
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would work an entire abrogation of the rule to hold the principal subject to the operation of the rule, and exempt the clerks and agents from its effects.” Mechem on Agency (2d Ed.) sec. 1202; Iroquois Iron Co. v. Kruse, 241 Fed. 433 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Koury
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.