Dyer v. Morse’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1970
10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for that purpose he had paid out a sum in excess of the value of all [the partner’s] property. ... a court of equity will sustain his self-asserted title to the property, if at that time it would have been in his power to have conveyed the property to another for the purpose of paying such debts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Shatina
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.