Dantagnan v. I. L. A. Local 1418’s Empirical Analysis
496 F.2d 400 · 1974
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2018
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Wilkins v. American Export Isbrandtsen Lines, Inc. · Sewell v. Grand Lodge of the International Ass'n of Machinists & Aerospace Workers · Kramer v. Freeman
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.
“[A] plaintiff either may sue for damages for the wrongful act by which he has been deprived of the thing [wrongfully acquired], or he may sue for the restoration of the thing. One is an action in tort, ...; the other is an action in quasi-contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“guidelines established by the forum state's own courts for testing the basic nature of a cause of action,”
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.