Dam v. Zink’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 1977 · most notably Webster v. Board of Dental Examiners (1941), 25 Cal. 2d 473 - Garrison v. Edward Brown & Sons (1944)
39 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 Smith v. Acker · Carey v. Brown · Daly v. Sorocco · Frazier v. Crowell · Pralus v. Pac. Gold & Silver Mining Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If facts are stated in the findings in the same way in which they are stated in the pleadings, they are sufficient ... 'The only purpose of the findings is to answer the questions put by the pleadings.'”
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.