Dean v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1980
12 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 Brackenridge v. Claridge & Payne · Alvord v. Cook · Parker v. Walker · 11 E.H. Smith 201 - Moot v. . Business Men's Investment Assn. · Middleton v. Findla
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Referring first to the defense that this contract for payment of commission is void because not in writing, learned counsel for appellants contend it is void under Laws of 1905, p. 110, which requires such contracts to be in writing. That law, however, was not passed until after the making of this contract, and it hardly needs citation of authority to show that such a statute is not retroactive. 20 Cyc. 281. Our attention is not called to any authority in support of counsel’s contention, which seems to be, because the contract is sought to be enforced after the enactment of the statute, it is therefore required to have been in writing.””
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.