Dorsey v. Dodson’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1958 · most notably Lemos v. Madden (1921), Levings v. Wood (1930)
6 federal appellate · 20 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDorsey v. Dodson
Relationships
Relies on Chamberlain v. . Taylor · Crerar v. Williams · Richards v. Miller · Silcox v. Nelson
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to bequeath to one who died a portion of the residue happening in consequence of his own death,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Levings v. Wood
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.