Dixon v. Thatcher’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
10 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Topaz Mutual Co. v. Marsh (1992), Amkco, Ltd., Co. v. Welborn (2001)
10 district · 26 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 Number One Rent-A-Car v. Ramada Inns, Inc. · Boyes v. Valley Bank of Nevada · Leonard v. Stoebling · Myers v. Jones · Nevada Escrow Service, Inc. v. Crockett
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A preliminary injunction to preserve the status quo is normally available upon a showing that the party seeking it enjoys a reasonable probability of success on the merits and that the defendant’s conduct, if allowed to continue, will result in irreparable harm for which compensatory damages is an inadequate remedy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“real property and its attributes are considered unique”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Apparent authority is 'that authority which a principal holds his agent out as possessing or permits him to exercise or to represent himself as possessing, under such circumstances as to estop the principal from denying its existence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.