Dorsey v. McGee’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 1951
14 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Doubtless this clause of the specifications was designed to meet and obviate the hardship of the decisions releasing sureties on account of small changes and alterations in the plans and' specifications of buildings and other works. To give the language of the provision that effect when used in instruments such as that we are now considering will work no injustice, but, on the contrary, conduce to a fair and equitable administration of justice.””
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.