Dawson v. Thorpe’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1992
10 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 Madison Limestone Company v. McDonald · Fielder v. Childs · Newbold v. Smart · Henderson v. Stinson · McCaw v. Barker
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . The point is that assignments of error are forms of pleading on appeal and must, with reasonable clarity, state the specific and precise erroneous ruling of the trial court and point out the exact place it appears in the transcript. . . .””
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.