Sears v. Dillingham’s Empirical Analysis
1815
Citation profile
27
cited by 27 later decisions
13
states following
June 1960
most recently cited
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 1960 · most notably Ensign v. Faxon (1916), Gillis v. Gillis (1895)
26 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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.
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.