Dalton v. Laudahn’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1933
9 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Dalton had no interest in the property by force of the agreement, nor any right to take it on the 20th. Laudahn was owner, and had full legal right to dispose of the chattels at any time during that day, and make the money to pay the rent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilcox v. Morton““The rule seems to be settled that when property is tortiously taken, the owner is not only entitled to an action, but to full compensation in damages.””
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.