Dooling v. Overholser’s Empirical Analysis
243 F.2d 825 · 1957
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2010 · most notably Lynch v. Overholser (1962), 18 Ill. 2d 11 - Molitor v. Kaneland Community Unit District No. 302 (1959)
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
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Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Ullmann v. United States · Great Northern Ry Co v. Sunburst Oil & Refining Co · Durham v. United States
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where there are two grounds, upon either of which an appellate court may rest its decision, and it adopts both, 'the ruling on neither is obiter [dictum], but each is the judgment of the court, and of equal validity with the other.' "Dooling v. Overholser, 243 F.2d 825, 828 (D.C. Cir. 1957) (quoting United States v. Title Ins. & Trust Co., 265 U.S. 472, 486 (1924)); see Woods v. Interstate Realty Co., 337 U.S. 535, 536 (1948) ("Where a decision rests on two or more grounds, none can be relegated to the category of obiter dictum.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.