Dobbins v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 1986
14 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 Crane v. Tunks · United States v. Nugent · Nardis Sportswear v. Simmons · Bowles v. Bourdon · Lunn v. F. W. Woolworth Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court had no less power to order the letter to be given to counsel for inspection or for use as evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGregor v. Gordon“could not have been required to produce it under the provisions of Rule 167.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGregor v. Gordon
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.