Dice v. Bender’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably GOLDMAN v. McShain (1968), United States National Bank v. Johnson (1985)
3 federal appellate · 59 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . In short, being a creature not of statute but of common law and equity jurisprudence, the doctrine of lis pendens is wholly subject to equitable principles. Thus, if a plaintiff were to delay unreasonably in the prosecution of his claim, or if the operation of the doctrine should prove to be harsh or arbitrary in particular instances, equity can and should refuse to give it effect, and, under its power to remove a cloud or title, can and should cancel a notice of lis pendens which might otherwise exist." (Emphasis added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Woods v. Peckich · Kelly v. Perry“lis pendens is not to establish actual liens upon the properties affected nor has it any application between the parties to the action themselves; all that it does is give notice to third persons that any interest they may acquire in the properties pending the litigation will be subject to the result of the action.”
3 later decisions 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.