Dowdell v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2008
15 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 New York Mutual Life Insurance v. Armstrong · Mutual Life Ins Co of New York v. Armstrong · Travelers Insurance Company v. Thompson · Fryar v. Oklahoma · Buckley v. Ohio by Barbuto
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that laws which subsist at the time and place of making of a contract, and where it is to be performed, enter into and become a part of it as though expressly referred to and incorporated in its terms.”
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.