Dahms v. Sears’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 1964 · most notably Rorvik v. North Pac. Lumber Co. (1920), Brown v. Bigné (1891)
4 federal appellate · 1 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 Sedgwick v. . Stanton · Green v. Palmer · Closson v. Morrison · Duke v. Harper · Wilder v. Bailey
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * Any claim which affects the estate of the party may be assigned, but the rule is otherwise where it arises out of an injury to the person, such as slander, assault and battery, and kindred cases.””
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.