Dolan v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently January 1995 · most notably Moe v. Avions Marcel Dassault-Breguet Aviation (1984), 39 Colo. App. 70 - Good v. AB Chance Co. (1977)
2 federal appellate · 47 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 33 Ill. 2d 514 - Miller v. Pillsbury Co. · Lucas v. District Court · Gebhard v. Niedzwiecki · Sorrell v. Scheuer · Houser v. Eckhardt
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . The trial judge should decide whether a witness is a qualified expert on a subject appropriate for expert testimony, but the basis of his opinion and the weight to be given the opinion should be left for advocates to challenge and for the [trier of facts] to determine."”
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.