Dodge v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Hudson v. Kyle (2006), 97 Ark. App. 260 - Judkins v. Duvall (2007)
35 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 Slaton v. Slaton · Cornett v. Prather · Warnock v. Warnock · Dodge v. Lee · Wise Co., Inc. v. CLAY CIRCUIT, EASTERN DIST.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts should not be guided blindly by titles but should look to the substance of motions to ascertain what they seek. It would not be in the interest of justice and fair play to be blindly guided by the title of a motion or pleading. We continue to abide by the well-established rule that a pleading will not be judged entirely by what it is labeled but also by what it contains.”
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.