Gosselin v. Better Homes, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably South Burlington School District v. Calcagni-Frazier-Zajchowski Architects, Inc. (1980), Dehahn v. Innes (1976)
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 30 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 Foman v. Davis · Leishman v. Associated Wholesale Electric Co. · M'Crea v. Purmort · Gaudiosi v. Mellon · Bowen v. Bell
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.
““must be viewed not as a game of skill in which one wrong move by counsel may be decisive but rather as orderly steps to be taken in securing an early and just final adjudication of the rights of the parties to the litigation.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[ejvidence of the circumstances surrounding the execution of the mortgage, the foreclosure of which the defendant seeks to enforce, together with the conduct and contemporaneous oral agreement of the parties, were all receivable in evidence for the purpose of proving the real nature of the transaction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(b) Amendment. The court may, upon motion of a party made not later than 10 days after notice of findings made by the court, amend its findings or make additional findings and, if judgment has been entered, may amend the judgment accordingly....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Levesque v. Levesque
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.