Dickerson v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1951
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.
Relationships
Relies on Hull v. Louth · Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. . Hunt · Proctor v. Cole · Stigers v. Brent · Argenti v. City of San Francisco
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.
““The protection of persons who are so unfortunate as to be bereft of reason and incapable of managing their own estates, is of higher obligation, and an object more to be cherished by the courts, than is the protection of holders of commercial paper, however innocent they may be (many citations). There can be no contract unless there is a meeting of the minds; and there can be no meeting of minds if the one party has no mind which can meet the mind of the other.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Yancy v. Erman
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.