Dahl v. Sittner’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 14 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably 21 Cal. 4th 563 - White v. Ultramar, Inc. (1999), Planned Parenthood, Sioux Falls Clinic v. Miller (1995)
19 federal appellate · 14 district · 26 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 Wilson v. Great Northern Railway Company · Commonwealth v. Welansky · Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. A & P Steel, Inc. · Hannahs v. Noah · Simpson v. Tobin
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“act[ed] willfully or wantonly to the injury of”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n any action for the breach of an obligation not arising from contract, where the defendant has been guilty of oppression, fraud, or malice, actual or presumed....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]hat a representation was made as a statement of fact, which was untrue and known to be untrue by the party making it, or else recklessly made; that it was made with intent to deceive and for the purpose of inducing the other party to act upon it; and that he [or she] did in fact rely on it and was induced thereby to act to his [or her] injury or damage.”
4 later decisions 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.