Gordon v. Pappas’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 1991
19 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 Mohr v. Williams · Grutski v. Kline · Stone v. Mullen · Wicker v. North States Construction Co. Inc. · Allen v. Dr. Pepper Bottling Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * where the verdict is the only one warranted under the law and by the evidence, error in the charge and misconduct on the part of counsel for the prevailing party in his closing argument are harmless and no grounds for a new trial.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If verdict is right as a matter of law, there will be no reversal on ground of erroneous instructions nor on ground of erroneous rulings, if those rulings do not affect the correctness of the verdict.”
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.