Dahl v. Akin’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1998
2 federal appellate · 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 Garza v. Alviar · Joske v. Irvine · White v. White · C. & R. TRANSPORT, INC. v. Campbell · Slay v. Burnett Trust
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“means ill will or evil motive or such gross indifference or reckless disregard for the rights of others as to amount to wanton and willful action, knowingly and unreasonably done.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... any balance of personal notes from George L. Dahl to Ted and Gloria Akin not assigned to the various entities would continue to be held by Gloria Akin as claims to be collected from the estate of George L. Dahl upon his demise. The personal notes of George L. Dahl are to be renewed annually, but shall not carry any interest except for the one note from George L. Dahl to Gloria Akin in the principal amount of $61,500.00 which originated in 1959 and 1960 and on which interest has been paid quarterly at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum since such date. Interest will continue to be paid quarterly on this note to Gloria Akin by George L. Dahl.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Akin v. Dahl
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.