Gordon v. Shea’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently July 1995 · most notably Seider v. Roth (1966), In Re the Estate of Gardinier (1963)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 60 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 Universal Adjustment Corp. v. Midland Bank, Ltd., of London · Robinson v. Carroll · New England Mutual Life Ins Co v. Woodworth · Plumer v. Houghton & Dutton Co. · Bickford v. Furber
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The object of appointing an administrator for estate of nonresident decedent is not to determine rights of parties interested in estate, but to have a legal representative of estate within commonwealth against whom or through whom those rights may be asserted.””
1 later decision 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.