Gaudio v. Gaudio’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 303 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 325 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Mannweiler v. LaFlamme (1995), Watson v. Watson (1992)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 303 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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Milliken v. Meyer · Tony and Susan Alamo Foundation v. Secretary of Labor · Standard Tallow Corp. v. Jowdy
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 325 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To determine the applicability of the doctrine, we must examine the pleadings to ascertain whether the actions are virtually alike.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] motion to dismiss is the proper vehicle to raise the issue of a prior pending action.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“a single purposeful business transaction.”
10 later decisions 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.