Gardner v. Panama Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
379 federal appellate · 101 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 898 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Burnett v. New York Central Railroad (1965), Costello v. United States (1961)
379 federal appellate · 101 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedGardner v. Panama R. (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Southern Pac Co v. Bogert · The Key City · McGrath v. Panama R.
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 898 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where there has been no inexcusable delay in seeking a remedy and where no prejudice to the defendant has ensued from the mere passage of time, there should be no bar to relief.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Petitioner has diligently sought redress in this case. Twice within the year following her injuries she brought suit. The second action abated through an Act of Congress and not through any fault of her own. There is no showing that respondent's position has suffered from the fact that the claim has not yet proceeded to trial on its merits.”
1 later decision 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.