Dobson v. Wilson & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 1990
2 federal appellate · 19 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 Sherwood Bros. v. District of Columbia · Williams v. Cities Service Gas Co. · Lightner v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America · Milbourne v. Kelley · Elmore v. Fanning
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether we view the section under consideration as in the nature of a condition precedent or as a statute of limitations, if the written claim is not made in time, proceedings for compensation may not be maintained. In this case the period of limitation was lengthened. . . . On its face the amended statute acted prospectively in the absence of some legislative declaration to the contrary, and there is none.” (1. c. 822.) (Emphasis ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . the amendment did not alter the obligation in any manner, but affected only the remedy to be pursued by claimant if respondent defaulted in its obligation. There are no vested rights to any particular remedy. (See 12 C. J. 974 et seq.; 16 C. J. S. 678; 6 R. C. L. 359; 11 Am. Jur. 1201 .)” (p.823.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Except as otherwise provided by statute, it is the public policy of this state that Sunday is not a day for the transaction of business, and where the last day of a period within which an act may be done falls on Sunday, the act may be rightfully done on the following secular or business day." (Syl. 3.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.