Dull v. Merrill’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1943
6 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 Hyde v. Powell · Pulte v. Geller · Beurmann v. Van Buren
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Complainant would not lose her rights as a creditor of her husband by failing to make her claim known, even as against the defendant, who trusted him in ignorance of it. ’ ’”
1 later decision 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.