Dahl v. Akin M’s Empirical Analysis
630 F.2d 277 · 1980
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Harvey v. Harvey (1992), McDougald v. Jenson (1986)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Paul v. Davis · Chambers v. Mississippi
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“armed with less process than would be necessary to seize a refrigerator, Texas peace officers dragged Dahl from his home and deposited him with Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spencer v. Lee“It is not enough, where the state in no way compelled appellees' actions [citation], that they acted 'with knowledge of and pursuant to' [state] statutes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.