Dodd v. Reese’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 1991 · most notably Department of Insurance v. Marion Superior Court (1956), Walters v. Marathon Oil Co. (1981)
3 federal appellate · 28 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 State Ex Rel. Lopez v. Killigrew · Huggins v. King · Hill v. Reifsnider
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““a person not a party to the action, but having an interest in the subject thereof, makes application to the court to be made a party, it may order him to be made a party by the proper amendment.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] court of equity does not depend upon the mere accident of the court having in some previous case, at some distant time, granted relief under similar circumstances. If it were so, equity would not have grown and developed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Behrens v. Milliken“protect a cherished and valuable right, and to prevent a great injury or wrong [suffered]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Behrens v. Milliken
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.