Dolan v. Dolan’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Doe v. Yale University (2000), McRoberts v. Phelps (1958)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 61 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 Hoge v. George · 43 Cal. App. 1 - Keyes v. Nims · Fox v. Shanley · Morgan v. Farrel · Wetmore v. Crouch
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a joint adventure it is not necessary that there be an express agreement, for the conduct of the parties and other circumstances will often justify the inference that such an agreement existed; and the contract is not avoided for indefiniteness because the minor details are not fully established.”
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.