Gardner v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Armstrong v. Armstrong (1988), Hogan v. Cone Mills Corp. (1985)
2 federal appellate · 74 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 Booker v. Duke Medical Center · Society for the Propagation of the Gospel v. Wheeler · Smith v. Mercer · Dellinger v. Bollinger · Coats v. Sampson County Memorial Hospital, Inc.
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] right to venue established by statute is a substantial right.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“action must be tried in the county in which the plaintiffs or the defendants, or any of them, reside at its commencement, or if none of the defendants reside in the State, then in the county in which the plaintiffs, or any of them, reside; and if none of the parties reside in the State, then the action may be tried in any county which the plaintiff designates in his summons and complaint, subject to the power of the court to change the place of trial, in the cases provided by statute[.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a right which is otherwise secured, established, and immune from further legal metamorphosis,”
3 later decisions 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.