Gardner v. Baird’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
1 district · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Accent Store Design, Inc. v. Marathon House, Inc. · United Lending Corp. v. City of Providence · Haley v. Town of Lincoln · Carlson v. Town of Smithfield · Carnevale v. Dupee
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a pleading need not include the ultimate facts that must be proven in order to succeed on the complaint or to set out the precise legal theory upon which his or her claim is based.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rather, 'the pleading simply must provide the opposing party with fair and adequate notice of the type of claim being asserted.'”
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.