Dolph v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1976
14 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 Tabor v. Cook · Williams v. Olson · Pike v. Richardson · White v. Shaw · Weller v. Wheelock
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.
““That a bill to quiet title brought by one not in possession, against one who is, cannot take the place of an action of ejectment, where the only questions at stake are the legal title and legal right of possession.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walker v. Schultz
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.