Dean v. Kirkland’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably 210 Ill. App. 3d 966 - Layne v. Builders Plumbing Supply Co. (1991), 100 Ill. App. 3d 314 - Libco Corp. v. Adams (1981)
14 federal appellate · 36 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 Doremus v. Hennessy · Bonney v. King · McDavitt v. Boyer · Stevens v. Rowe · Taylor v. Bidwell
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . the tactics pursued by plaintiff in the case at bar would encourage and multiply vexatious suits and lead to interminable litigation. Each law suit would give birth to an infinite series of suits. . . . ” (Emphasis added) ( 23 N.E.2d 180, 188 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We are of the opinion that an action by a litigant will not lie against an opponent or against a witness where the gravamen of the charge is that the defendant has been guilty of perjury, or has suborned or attempted to suborn perjury.” (Emphasis added) ( 23 N.E.2d 180, 187 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meier v. Pearlman
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.