Ex Parte Dodd’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 1941
most recently cited
2 state decisions
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is an executory devise to the unborn children of another person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Springs v. . Scott
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.