DeWall v. Prentice’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably Hysell v. Iowa Public Service Co. (1977), Beeck v. Aquaslide 'N' Dive Corp. (1984)
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.
Relationships
Relies on Glus v. Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal · Schmitt v. Jenkins Truck Lines, Inc. · Northrup v. Miles Homes, Inc. of Iowa · Shover v. Iowa Lutheran Hospital · Holden v. Construction MacHinery Company
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The elements of equitable estoppel are well established. There must be conduct amounting to false representation or concealment, and a party relying thereon must.be thereby misled into doing or failing to do something he would not otherwise have done or omitted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“such person, or the appropriate administrator, may recover the value of services and support as spouse or parent or both, as the case may be, in such sum as the jury deems proper; provided, however, recovery for these elements of damage may not be had by the spouse and children, as such, of any person who, or whose administrator, is entitled to recover same.”
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.