Dean & v. MacDonald’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2024
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 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 136 Wis. 2d 304 - Green Spring Farms v. Kersten · 111 Wis. 2d 203 - Arnold v. Shawano County Agricultural Society · 83 Ill. 2d 82 - Schlessman v. Henson · Benitez v. New York City Board of Education · Barnes v. New Hampshire Karting Ass'n
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the plaintiff understood the import of the agreement or a reasonable person in his position would have understood the import of the agreement;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the plaintiff's claims were within the contemplation of the parties when they executed the contract.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Mr. Dean signed the Release before entering the infield pit area”
2 later decisions 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.