Dodd v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1958
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““So far as concerns relief by a decree for the repayment of the money as so much money paid for the use of the defendant — a decree founded only upon his implied contract to repay it — the plea must prevail. For more than three years elapsed between the date of the payment of the debt by Barkley Wilson’s administratrix (August 16, 1864), and the filing of this bill on May 21, 1869. This being the statutory period of limitation against simple contract liabilities, such as would bar an action at law, equity will apply the same limitation as against a decree for the direct repayment of the money.””
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.