Dowd v. Harmon’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2000
15 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 Helms v. American Security Co. · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Braxtan · In re Leach · Garrigus v. Board of Commissioners · Willis v. Bayles
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“after a proper and sufficient affidavit is filed the court has no jurisdiction to consider any matter involved in the case.”
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.