Pope v. Dickerson’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
April 1990
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on T. L. Farrow Mercantile Co. v. Riggins
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Contracts to perform personal acts are considered as made on the implied condition that the party shall be alive and shall be capable of performing the contract, so that death or disability will operate as a discharge.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hamer v. Drake · Frazier v. Frazier
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.