Gardiner v. William S. Butler & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
245 U.S. 603 · 1918
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 18 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2013 · most notably Brown v. O'Keefe (1937), Manhattan Properties, Inc. v. Irving Trust Co. (1934)
49 federal appellate · 18 district · 43 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedChan Pong v. United States (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Central Trust Co. v. Chicago Auditorium Ass'n · William Filene's Sons Co. v. Weed · Sutton v. Goodman · Duplex Envelope Co. v. A. S. Kratz 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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But the law as to leases is not a matter of logic in vacuo; it is a matter of history that has not forgotten Lord Coke.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.