Dugan v. Trout’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1983
19 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 Bailey v. Interstate Airmotive, Inc. · Stith v. St. Louis Public Service Co. · Lilly v. Boswell · Gerber v. Schutte Investment Co. · Conduitt v. Trentonton Gas & Electric 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Examination of a long and unbroken line of authorities ... impels the belief that it would be improvident to dispense with the time-honored requirement that either compliance or waiver must be pleaded and proved. The wisdom of this is, we think, well demonstrated in the instant case, where, absent any averment of either compliance or waiver in his amended answer, defendant argues the case on appeal on both theories, although the concepts of compliance and waiver are inconsistent with and antagonistic to, each other.””
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.