Gardner v. the Calvert’s Empirical Analysis
253 F.2d 395 · 1958
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2010 · most notably Guzman v. Pichirilo (1962), Neville Chemical Co. v. Union Carbide Corp. (1970)
16 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 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 New Colonial Ice Co. v. Helvering · Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. · Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co. · McAllister v. United States · Eastman Kodak Co of New York v. Southern Photo Materials 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is normal for the president of a corporation to act as its chief executive officer and agent, and contracts made by a corporation’s authorized agent within the scope of its legitimate purposes are binding on it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“once the fact of damages has been established 'the actual amount of lost profits may be estimated from the facts in evidence, including the inferences to be drawn from them and the probabilities they suggest.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a matter within the sound discretion of the district court.”
1 later decision 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.