Dover Copper Mining Co. v. Doenges’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2001 · most notably Leikvold v. Valley View Community Hospital (1984), Town of Vinton v. City of Roanoke (1954)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Offutt · Sparks v. Dispatch Transfer Co. · Baker v. Maseeh · Miller Cattle Co. v. Mattice · Adams Mining Co. v. Senter
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The promise of a person to carry out a subsisting contract with the promissee is no consideration for another contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Owens v. Conelly“are terminable at pleasure by either party, or at most upon reasonable notice”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Demasse v. ITT Corp.
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.