Dryden v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently January 1970 · most notably Watkins v. Layton (1958), State v. Richardson (1965)
64 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 Nicholas v. Latham · Beye v. Andres · Hoff v. Hoff · Baker v. John D. Maguire's, Inc. · Hale v. Ziegler
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A general finding made by a trial court determines every controverted fact in support of which evidence was introduced, and a general finding raises a presumption that the trial court found all facts necessary to sustain and support the judgment.” ( Syl. ft 1.)”
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.