Aaron v. Dausch’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 1989 · most notably 343 Ill. App. 148 - Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad v. Arthur Dixon Transfer Co. (1951), Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company v. Sullivan (1988)
2 federal appellate · 19 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 Schwartz v. Schwartz · Tribune Co. v. Thompson · Dean v. Kirkland · Rogers v. Higgins · Knaus v. Chicago Title and Trust 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that all persons who aid or advise in the commission of a fraudulent act by another, or who approve of it after it is done for their benefit are liable in the same manner as they would be had they themselves performed the same act,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“mere knowledge, acquiescence, or approval, without intentional participation,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not enough to constitute one a party to a conspiracy,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.