Proctor v. Dillon’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 1990 · most notably 10 Mass. App. Ct. 246 - Mongeau v. Boutelle (1980), Holton v. American Pastry Products Corp. (1931)
42 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 Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · The Osceola · Simpson v. Shepard · The Harrisburg · Chelentis v. Luckenbach Steamship 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a general and familiar principle of the common law that in cases of tort, where two or more are liable for the same cause of action, they are liable severally as well as jointly, and if one is sued alone the entire damages may be recovered against him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berkman v. Ross
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.