Dalton v. Bowers’s Empirical Analysis
53 F.2d 373 · 1931
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019
11 federal appellate ·
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 Carnegie Steel Company v. Cambria Iron Company · Zadig v. Ætna Ins. · Aronstam v. All-Russian Central Union of Consumers' Societies, Inc. · Camden Iron Works Co. v. Sater · Delaware, L. & W. R. Co. v. Yurkonis
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Entry is for most purposes not necessary to the validity of an order.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are not as irrevocable as other contracts.”
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.