Dilli v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
107 F.2d 669 · 1939
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 1986 · most notably Lyon v. Carey (1976), Weinberg v. Johnson (1986)
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 18 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 New York Central Hudson River Railroad Company v. United States · Davis v. Merrill · Axman v. Washington Gaslight Co. · Central Motor Co. v. Gallo · Schell v. Vergo
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even though he may act wantonly and contrary to his employer's instructions”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hoston v. Silbert
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.