Dickey v. Converse’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 1982 · most notably Sawada v. Endo (1977), Union & Mercantile Trust Co. v. Hudson (1921)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Hiles v. . Fisher · Scribner v. Collar · 42 N.J. Eq. 651 - Buttlar v. Rosenblath · Fisher v. Provin · Naylor v. Minock
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““They both took the same estate, the same interest, and it could not be separated. The right of the one was the right of the other. Neither could by a separate transfer affect the rights of the other, or his own. What would defeat the interest of one would also defeat that of the other.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanford v. Bertrau
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.