Gardenswartz v. Equitable Etc. Soc.’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably AARTS Productions, Inc. v. Crocker National Bank (1986), Coyne v. Krempels (1950)
60 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 United States v. Spaulding · Welch v. Alcott · Alpers v. Bliss · Ambassador Petroleum Co. v. Superior Court · 87 Cal. App. 5 - People v. Crossan
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should at least present an affidavit by someone who states of his own knowledge that such other persons do know or claim to know the facts and have refused to make affidavits, and such affidavit ought to name the other persons and set forth what each one knows or claims to know ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Under this provision, summary judgment for plaintiff cannot be ordered, even though affidavits for the defendant be insufficient or absent, unless the plaintiff presents affidavits in support of his motion which comply with the section and show that he is entitled to judgment.”
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.