Gardner v. Rundell’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently June 1983 · most notably Hoge v. George (1921), Lifemark Corp. v. Merritt (1983)
86 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.
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A parol contract by which two or more persons agree to purchase land for their joint benefit, the title to be taken in the name of one, is valid at common law, and is not prohibited by our statutes, and hence may be enforced here without reference to the question whether the consideration be paid by the cestui que trust at the time the deed is taken or not. Why should it make any difference if one party should pay the whole consideration, the other agreeing at the time to refund his proportion at some future date?””
2 later decisions 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.