Dalton v. Mullins’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2017
4 federal appellate · 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 Anvil Mining Co. v. Humble · Anvil Min Co v. Humble · Laycock v. Parker · Henderson Cotton Manufacturing Co. v. Lowell Machine Shops · Streipe v. Liberty Mutual Life Insurance 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are not so much disturbed as to whether the claim is liquidated or unliq-uidated as we are, in accordance with the popular trend, as to whether justice and equity demand an allowance of interest to the injured party. It is with this in mind that there has been promulgated the rule that even on unliquidated claims allowance of interest is discretionary with the court.” Id. at 477 . [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“had the right to treat this action as a breach, to abandon the contract, and to depart from further performance on his own part and finally demand damages”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pace v. Burke
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.