Dittberner v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably City of Dallas v. Moreau (1986), Ford v. Durkay (1992)
1 federal appellate · 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 Wichita Falls & Oklahoma Railway Co. v. Pepper · Cochran v. Wool Growers Central Storage Co. · White v. White · Stone v. Lawyers Title Ins. Corp. · Permian Oil Co. v. Smith
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The judgment of the court shall conform to the pleadings, the nature of the case proved and the verdict, if any, and shall be so framed as to give the party all the relief to which he may be entitled either in law or equity. Provided, that upon motion and reasonable notice the court may render judgment non obstante ver-dicto if a directed verdict would have been proper, ... (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“While each signer of a note is liable to the payee for the entire amount, ... generally, as between two signers, each is liable for one-half of the amount.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ford v. Durkay“While each signer of a note is liable to the payee for the entire amount, generally, as between two signers, each is liable for one-half of the amount.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ford v. Durkay
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.