Dawkins v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently November 2004 · most notably Mansfield Hardwood Lumber Co. v. Johnson (1959), 851 So. 2d 1255 - Glod v. Baker (2003)
9 federal appellate · 25 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 Wallace v. Lincoln Savings Bank · Chetwood v. California National Bank · 39 La. Ann. 23 - Knoop, Hanneman & Co. v. Blaffer · Caillouet v. Franklin
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The directors of the bank were its agents, charged under the law with an implied trust to use its funds only for the purposes permitted by law, and to preserve them for its creditors and stockholders * * *. The obligation which the directors incurred in favor of the bank was a special one, due to it in particular, and to the stockholders. It was not a general duty due to every one. They were elected by the stockholders to administer the affairs of the bank and accepted the trust. * * * * *”
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.