Cecil v. Dollar’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 1983
3 federal appellate · 8 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 Magruder v. Johnston · Johnston v. Johnston · Sutton v. . Sutton
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mrs. Cecil’s principal complaint is, as already stated, with regard to the method by which Dollar acquired legal title to the Cecil mineral interest. It will be noted from the above facts that Dollar, notwithstanding he had sufficient funds with which to pay the indebtedness against the land, to- remove from it the encumbrance which he had assumed, by breaching his agreement and refusing to pay interest installments on the note, brought about a trustee’s sale at which he purchased the property and acquired legal title to all the mineral estate underlying the entire section, whereas prior to his purchase he had title to only one-half of the minerals. This Dollar did with intent to acquire the Cecil mineral interest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dickason v. Mathews
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.