Dixon v. Bernstein’s Empirical Analysis
182 F.2d 104 · 1950
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2006
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 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 Dewey v. Clark · United States ex rel. Barrigar v. Robinson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“important that these are dealings between informed parties.... Within such a professionalized context, it seems reasonable to suppose that if the parties had intended to make their contract dependent upon conditions other than the consummation of sale, they would have done so.”
2 later decisions 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.