Dickey v. Volker’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably Halladay v. Verschoor (1967), State Ex Rel. Johnson v. Sevier (1936)
3 federal appellate · 50 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · Antoine Michoud v. Peronne Bernardine Girod · Alexander Magruder v. Samuel a Drury · Shelton v. King · People ex rel. Ellert v. Cogswell
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An individual member of the public has no vested interest in the property or funds of the [charitable] trust.... Any action on this account must be taken by the Attorney General as the representative of the public. However, those with a special interest may enforce the trust, or a localized or grouped charity may be enforced by a class suit.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the appellant is without authority to institute the suit, the unwilling presence of the Attorney General as a party defendant does not confer that authority upon him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[c]ounsel have briefed the whole of the law relating to charitable trusts.”
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.