Gardner v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 1985
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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 Audubon v. Shufeldt · Cosper v. the Valley Bank · Fazzio v. Krieger · Forsythe v. Paschal · Lewis v. Lewis
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The community property of the husband and wife is liable for the community debts contracted by the husband during marriage unless specially excepted by law."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“community property cannot be reached to satisfy separate contractual debts of the husband.”
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.