Dohrman v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2009
10 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 Rosenfield v. United States Trust Co. · Mississippi & Dominion Steamship Co. v. Swift · Universal Products Co. v. Emerson · Shaw v. Ingram-Day Lumber Co. · Disken v. Herter
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nor does a contemporaneous agreement to reduce a contract to writing make its validity depend upon it being actually reduced to writing and signed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Tyson“court can see from the writings or correspondence that the minds of the parties have met”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Tyson
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.