Dalton v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2005
12 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 Stotzenberger v. Perkins · Murphy v. Barron · Dalton v. Johnson · State Ex Rel. McGrew Coal Co. v. Ragland · Keaton v. Jorndt
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such an order [mandate] is not itself a decree.... ... [A] certified copy of the opinion accompanies the mandate. In certain instances—for example when the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded with directions to proceed as directed in the opinion ..., and in other conceivable situation where the opinion might properly be considered—the opinion by such reference made to it becomes pro tanto incorporated with the judgment or mandate.... [I]n such cases, and many like them in that respect, they are expressly distinguished from “simple reversals and remands,” as they are termed. The obvious distinction lies in the fact that the opinion in this latter class [simple reversals or remand] serves no interpretive function or aidful purpose .... ... [A mandate] is not a judgment or decree but a notification of a judgment. Under the law ... such an opinion is part of such mandate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harrison v. Harrison“No proceeding can be had in the lower court until the mandate has been filed in such court, or at least issued.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re EFBD
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.