Gardner v. Shreve’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably 10 Cal. 3d 351 - Rooney v. Vermont Investment Corp. (1973), 185 Cal. App. 3d 949 - B & P DEVELOPMENT CORP. v. City of Saratoga (1986)
3 federal appellate · 40 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 19 Cal. 2d 553 - Eagle Oil & Refining Co. v. Prentice · Walsh v. Walsh · Zeibak v. Nasser · Parker v. James Granger, Inc. · 80 Cal. App. 2d 1 - Alkus v. Johnson-Pacific Co.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Normally any agreement to rescind or modify an existing bilateral relation finds sufficient consideration in the prior rights of the parties which are surrendered. (Rest., Contracts, § 406, com. a; VI Williston on Contracts (rev. ed.), § 1826; Sistrom v. Anderson, 51 Cal.App.2d 213, 219 [ 124 P.2d 372 ].)””
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.