Dodo v. Stocker’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1989
5 federal appellate · 8 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 United States v. Ross · McClellan v. Morris · President of the Bank of the United States v. Lyman · Mountain Motor Fuel Co. v. Rivers · City of Boulder v. Stewardson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A legal fiction is the assumption, for purposes of justice, of a fact that does not or may not exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.