Gardner v. State of New Jersey’s Empirical Analysis
329 U.S. 565 · 1947
Citation profile
250 federal appellate · 88 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,014 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Darr v. Burford (1950), College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board (1999)
250 federal appellate · 88 district · 8 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedIn re New Jersey (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Brillhart v. Excess Insurance Co. of America · Vanston Bondholders Protective Committee v. Green · Case v. Los Angeles Lumber Products Co. · Thompson v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. · Continental Illinois Nat Bank Trust Co of Chicago v. Chicago R I & P Ry Co
Cited together with Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida · Edelman v. Jordan · Hans v. State of Louisiana · Atascadero State Hospital v. Scanlon · College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board
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 1,014 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the claimant is a State, the procedure of proof and allowance is not transmuted into a suit against the State because the court entertains objections to the claim. The State is seeking something from the debtor. No judgment is sought against the State.”
42 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“seriously impair the power of the court to administer the estate and adversely affect the power of ... the court to promulgate a reorganization plan.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f a state desires to participate in the assets of a bankrupt, she must submit to appropriate requirements by the controlling power; otherwise, orderly and expeditious proceedings would be impossible and a fundamental purpose of the Bankruptcy Act would be frustrated.”
9 later decisions 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.