Gardner v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably Price v. Seidler (1966), Burger Chef Systems, Inc. v. Govro (1969)
5 federal appellate · 21 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 Klotsch v. P. F. Collier & Son Corp. · 219 Mo. App. 162 - Burgess v. Garvin Price Merc. Co. · Adams v. Whatley · Smith Ex Rel. Smith v. Fine · Kickham v. Carter
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Each case must depend upon its own facts and no single test considered alone is conclusive of the ultimate test, the right to control.”
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.