Dodd v. McGee’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2003
15 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 Reinders v. Koppelmann · Godman v. Simmons · Gray Ex Rel. Brokel v. Clement · Gray v. Clement · Dempster Mill Mfg. Co. v. Humphries
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“with remainder in fee simple to my beloved daughter, Velma Opal Dodd, and the heirs of her body.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harlow v. Benning“[the objects of partition are to avoid the inconveniences resulting from common ownership”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beach v. Beach
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.