Dodson v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 1980
4 federal appellate · 19 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 The Bank of the United States v. The Bank of Washington · Reynolds v. Harris · Meeks v. State · Coughlin v. Ehlert · Hess v. Deppen
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But an erroneous judgment is valid until it is reversed. By the rendition of such judgment, it is the Court which makes the mistake, and not the party in whose favor it is rendered. The judgment, though erroneous, is not void, and protects all persons acting under it until it is reversed.””
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.