Gardner v. Frederick’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1949
6 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 Bogie v. Bogie · Shover v. Myrick · Hewett v. Dole · Payette v. Ferrier · Davis v. Davis
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule in this state, as well as the great weight of authority, is to the effect that, where an aged par ent conveys property to a son or daughter, or other person, in consideration of future support and care, and there is a willful and wrongful withholding of such support and care, in equity the contract may be rescinded, or, if rescission cannot be had, an action for damages will lie. . . . The aged parent is entitled to respectful and considerate treatment, such as would naturally be prompted by the filial affection of a child. . . . There is some evidence that there was a deliberate attempt to withhold from her that gentle sympathy which not only would be prompted by filial affection, but which the law, in cases of this character, demands.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Goltz
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.