Dawson v. Dawson’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 1991 · most notably Shaw v. Lee (1963), 45 Ala. App. 596 - Automotive Acceptance Corporation v. Powell (1970)
2 federal appellate · 43 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 Slater v. Mexican National Railroad · Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Emma Humble · Austin v. Austin · Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. Carroll · Caine v. St. Louis S. F. R. Co.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . . Generally when a statute is relied upon it should be set out in haec verba, and when a judicial opinion of the sister state is invoked it should be so fully set out in the plea as to inform this court of the point or question decided, but this does not mean that the whole opinion including a transcript of the record should be set out. It is enough if the opinion is sufficiently set out to apprise us of the point involved and how it was decided by the highest court of the sister state . . . . ” Dawson v. Dawson, supra, at page 16, 138 So. at page 416 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.