Dowell v. O'Brien’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
October 1983
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Oscanyan v. Arms Co. · Maryland Trust Co. v. National Mechanics Bank · Burke v. Smith · Harrington v. Boschenski
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Summary judgment is not a formal, technical proceeding. We think the affidavit should not be ignored.””
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.