Dillon v. Dillon’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1961
1 district · 7 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 Dominguez v. Lee · Macarty v. New Orleans Canal & Banking Co. · Howard v. Freeman
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`The Article of the Code already quoted very clearly shows that he is only entitled to such benefit if the improvements have been made "by the common labor, expenses or industry." "`Whether, in the absence of any other proof whatever, the bare fact that the improvements were made during the marriage would be sufficient to establish his right, is a question we are not here called to pass upon. The Article of the Code clearly contemplates proof on both sides; and the presumption from the fact above mentioned, if it exists, is certainly a very light one. We think the evidence in this case, recited above, in absence of all countervailing proof, is sufficient to overcome it.' (Emphasis added.)”
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.