Gordon v. O'Brien’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Wetherbee v. Matowitz (1978), Whitney v. Whitney (1949)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 46 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 Lowell Bar Ass'n v. Loeb · Kidder v. Greenman · Union Old Lowell National Bank v. Paine · Mansfield v. Lang · DuBois v. Powdrell
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A husband may of course act as agent for his wife in the management and disposition of her property.... But where ... the agency is disputed, proof of the marital relation alone is not sufficient to establish that he was her agent in negotiating the sale of her land.”
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.