Du Pre v. Du Pre’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2003
15 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 Martinez v. Gutierrez · McOutcheon Church v. Smith
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A right cannot be considered a vested right, unless it is something more than such a mere expectation as may be based upon an anticipated continuance of the present general laws; it must have become a title, legal or equitable, to the present or future enjoyment of exemption of a demand made by another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Kubas“imposed no new legal liability on the father, but merely provided a more effective remedy or means of enforcing the existing legal liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re SCS
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.