Gardner v. Rutherford’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 1992 · most notably 144 Cal. App. 2d 310 - H. S. Mann Corp. v. Moody (1956), 29 Cal. 2d 503 - Parker v. Shell Oil Co. (1946)
12 federal appellate · 25 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 Hollywood Cleaning & Pressing Co. v. Hollywood Laundry Service, Inc. · Erkenbrecher v. Grant · 12 Cal. 2d 266 - Moss v. Underwriters' Report, Inc. · Tillson v. Peters · Carter v. Canty
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is claimed by appellant that these records were insufficient to constitute a single book account and that they in reality show a great number of book accounts, wholly unrelated to each other. We do not accede to this view. The law does not prescribe any standard of bookkeeping practice which all must follow, regardless of the nature of the business of which the record is kept. We think it makes no difference whether the account is kept in one book or several so long as they are permanent records, and constitute a system of bookkeeping as distinguished from mere private memoranda. The records were sufficient to support a cause of action on a book account.” (See also Gardner v. Rutherford, 57 Cal.App. 2d 874 [ 136 P.2d 48 ].)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. Etchebarren
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.