Dutton v. Christie’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 1971 · most notably 76 Wash. 2d 304 - J & J Food Centers, Inc. v. Selig (1969), 33 Cal. App. 19 - Ramish v. Workman (1917)
4 federal appellate · 25 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 Caesar v. . Rubinson · Chaude v. . Shepard
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When appellants paid this money as a consideration for the lease, the title to it passed to the respondent. Their breach of the lease cannot divest his title. ’ ’”
2 later decisions 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.