Dittman v. Model Baking Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably Neeley v. County of Tarrant (1939), Park v. Essa Texas Corporation (1958)
1 federal appellate · 25 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 Clarendon Land Investment Agency Co. v. McClelland Bros. · Hoffman v. Ætna Fire Insurance · Devlin v. Mayor of New York · Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. W. T. Carter & Brother · Glenn v. Dallas County Bois D'Arc Island Levee District
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But, saving exceptions of these kinds, the full and unexceptional liberty of restricting alienation of contractual rights has given way,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to construct and operate a street railway extension for five years in behalf of a land company owning a city addition,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“such obligations as to clean city streets, to keep railroad cars in repair, to erect and operate a mill,”
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.