Dvorak v. Maring’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2022
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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 Vandeputte v. Soderholm · Anderson v. First Nat. Bank of Pine City · Holden v. Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk & Co. · Marr v. Bradley · Weitzner v. Thingstad
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Minn.Stat. § 519.06 (1978) * * *, which precludes one spouse from acting as agent for the other in the sale of real estate, prevents a spouse from ratifying a land sale contract signed by the other spouse, since the spouse cannot ratify an act he or she could not have originally authorized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the finding of estoppel resulted from the nonsigning spouse’s consent and full knowledge of the transaction, retention of benefits, and delivery of possession to the grantee, who typically took possession and made valuable improvements.”
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.