Dick v. Dick’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Scribner v. O'Brien, Inc. (1975), Sanchione v. Sanchione (1977)
8 district · 77 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 State v. Bitting · Savings Bank of New London v. Santaniello · Osborne v. Locke Steel Chain Co. · Breen v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Southern New England Contracting Co. v. State
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although an accounting is also a legal remedy, it `has become to a great extent equitable'; . . . particularly where it is used as a preliminary step in establishing other rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Forbearance from suit is, of course, valid consideration for a contract if the claim on which the suit was threatened was valid and enforceable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where the essential right asserted is equitable in its nature and damages are sought in lieu of equitable relief or as supplemental to it in order to make that relief complete, the whole action is one in equity and there is no right to a jury.”
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.