Dillon v. Linder’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 1988
21 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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whatever a statute gives, which has not ripened into a vested right, a repeal of the statute may take away. ‘The effect of a repealing statute I take to be, to obliterate the statute repealed as completely from the records of parliament, as if it had never been passed; and that it must be considered as a law that had never existed, except for the purpose of those actions or suits which were commenced, prosecuted and concluded while it was an existing law.’ ””
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.