Gordon v. McLemore’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2001 · most notably Riley v. Bradley (1948), Markstein v. Schilleci (1952)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 Winsett v. Winsett · Porter v. Henderson · Horton v. Sledge · Bell v. Propst · Bailey v. Bond
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not think the principle [that an occupying cotenant is not entitled to reimbursement] implies an obligation [on the occupying cotenant] to pay taxes. What [the occupying cotenant] paid out in that respect was a legal charge, necessary to be paid by some one.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richardson v. Gibson
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.