Dissault v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1996
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 Al's Auto Sales v. Moskowitz · Loyal's Auto Exchange, Inc. v. Munch · Rankin v. Wyatt · Fogle v. General Credit, Inc. · Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n v. National Funding Corp.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If appellants may go beyond the certificate of title to show what they claim was the exact state of the title, respondent is equally entitled to go beyond the face of the certificate and show his interest * * *. The decision * * * is * * based * * * on the proposition that appellants, while insisting upon a strict adherence to the necessity of respondent having a title certificate, themselves never had a title certificate which complied with the law * * * ””
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.