Dreyfus v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 1990 · most notably Frye v. Hubbell (1907), North State Fire Insurance v. Dillard (1908)
3 federal appellate · 20 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 Hastings v. Lovejoy · Gordon v. Moore · Reynolds v. Reynolds · Pope v. Tunstall · Cavaness v. Ross
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Dear Sir: We have your communication with enclosure as stated [which was the $200 check], and you may consider this a receipt and satisfaction in full of the account of S.G. Dreyfus & Company v. yourself for $1,621. We will immediately have judgment satisfied, as per your request. Very truly yours.”
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.