Dickie v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 1955 · most notably Hobart v. Hobart (1895), Francis v. Wilkinson (1893)
53 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 Jackson ex dem. Coe v. Kniffen · Leverett's Heirs v. Carlisle · Jackson v. Edwards
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If all is fair, and the result of honest argument and persuasion, or of such influemce as one may properly obtain over another, the deeel must stand.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.