Dickinson v. Burnham’s Empirical Analysis
197 F.2d 973 · 1952
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2011 · most notably Ross v. Bernhard (1970), Ortiz v. Fibreboard Corp. (1999)
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Hansberry v. Lee · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · United States v. Yellow Cab Co.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough none of the contributors has been paid in full, no one ... now asserts or suggests that they should have full recovery ... as on an ordinary tort liability for conspiracy and defrauding. The court's power of disposition over the fund was therefore absolute and final.”
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.