Dulan v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Heffron v. District Court of Oklahoma County (2003), Fleet v. Sanguine, Ltd. (1993)
1 federal appellate · 30 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 Sloan v. Owen · National Educators Life Insurance Co. v. Apache Lanes, Inc. · Foster v. Udall · Talla v. Anderson · Kaw Valley Fair Ass'n v. Miller
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to offer an early confession of judgment [to] avoid further increases in costs which may be incurred [for] trial preparation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“provid[ing] additional incentives to encourage a plaintiff to accept a defendant's offer to confess judgment”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“is to encourage judgments without protracted litigation”
4 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.