Dillon v. Hawkins’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2007
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 Patrick v. Whitely · American Bonding Co. v. Morris · Chicago Crayon Co. v. Choate · McMurray v. Boyd · S. R. Morgan & Co. v. Pace
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.
“`Ordinarily litigants appear by attorneys, who act for them. Litigants are therefore necessarily charged with any knowledge possessed by their attorneys in regard to the orders of the court relating to the trial of the causes, and Dillon must therefore be charged with the knowledge of his local attorney, although that attorney had failed to communicate the knowledge to him.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.