Dorn v. Dorn’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably School Board v. Caudill Rowlett Scott, Inc. (1989), United States v. Johnson (1997)
4 federal appellate · 63 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 Cofer v. Cofer · Raymond Thomas Council v. Commonwealth · Cutshaw v. Cutshaw · Richardson v. Moore · Alig v. Alig
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arising from oversight or from an inadvertent omission”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“B. Clerical mistakes. — Clerical mistakes in all judgments or other parts of the record and errors therein arising from oversight or from an inadvertent omission may be corrected by the court at any time on its own initiative or upon the motion of any party and after such notice, as the court may order. During the pendency of an appeal, such mistakes may be corrected before the appeal is docketed in the appellate court, and thereafter while the appeal is pending such mistakes may be corrected with leave of the appellate court.”
3 later decisions 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.