Dayton v. Monroe’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 1925
20 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We cio not understand that there is any rule requiring a defrauded party to give up the personal unsecured obligation of those who defraud him, as a condition of suit for the fraud. It is one of the documents which may be necessary, as it was here, to prove the false representations, which were indorsed on the note itself. By surrendering this, plaintiff would have lost the most important item of proof which he possessed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gillett v. Knowles
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.