Dorris v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1964
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Estate of Bradley · People Ex Rel. Lyle v. City of Chicago · In Re Standwaitie's Estate · Nebraska Loan & Trust Co. v. Hamer · Swope v. Ardery
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the rule of caveat emptor it is incumbent upon the bidder, and not upon the officer, to determine the condition of the title, and if he bids he does so with notice that he will take only whatever interest the execution debtor has in the premises.” Dorris v. Johnson, 363 Ill. 236, 239 , 2 N.E.2d 74, 76 , 104 A.L.R. 629 . (Emphasis in original.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lebrecht v. Beckett
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.