Dunlap v. MacKe’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Air Conditioning Engineers, Inc. v. Small (1953), 469 So. 2d 548 - Upton v. Mississippi Valley Title Ins. Co. (1985)
30 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 Hunter-Benn Co. Company v. Bassett Lumber Co. · Doe ex dem. Holman v. Crane · Hardaway-Wright Co. v. Bradley Bros. · Smith Sons Lumber Co. v. Steiner, Crum Weil · Ex Parte Patrick
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . plain and unambiguous, there is no room for interpretation, and the parties thereto `may stand upon the letter' of the contract.”
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.