Dill v. Rader’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2010
6 federal appellate · 5 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 Tribune Co. v. Thompson · Ballantine v. Cummings · Chisler v. Randall · Nissen v. Andres · Glasscock v. McDaniel
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.
“disconnected circumstances, any of which, or all of which, are just as consistent with lawful purposes as with unlawful purposes, are insufficient to establish a conspiracy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]here subsequent acts are relied upon to establish a conspiracy, they must clearly indicate the prior collusive combination and fraudulent purpose and must warrant the conclusion that the subsequent acts were done in furtherance of the unlawful combination and in pursuance of the fraudulent scheme. Disconnected circumstances, any one of which, or all of which, are fust as consistent with a lawful purpose as with an unlawful undertaking, are insufficient to establish a conspiracy.”
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.