Dole v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2000 · most notably Cedar Rapids Gas Light Company v. City of Cedar Rapids S (1912), Grayson v. Lynch (1896)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 29 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 Jones v. Tucker · Page v. Parker · Boardman v. Woodman · Concord Railroad v. Greely · Brehm v. Great Western Railway Co.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The limit of safety in this direction is reached, it would seem, when we admit, as the practice in this state is, the opinions of medical men, for instance, with regard to a disease which in actual practice they may not have treated, but concerning which the science and skill of long experience in the affinities and analogies of the subject have prepared them to speak with confidence, from a knowledge of the rules and laws governing the special subject of inquiry.”
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.