Dodds v. Bickle’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Shaffer v. Honeywell, Inc. (1976), Peter Kiewit Sons' Company v. Summit Construction Company and General Insurance Company of America, Summit Construction Company and General Insurance Company of America v. Peter Kiewit Sons' Company, General Insurance Company of America v. Peter Kiewit Sons' Company (1969)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 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 First Church of Christ v. Revell · City of Plankinton v. Kieffer · Somers v. Somers · State ex rel. Coolsaet v. City of Veblen · Eickelberg v. Soper
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. .. [it] will not dismiss an appeal upon the ground that the questions involved have become moot unless it appears clearly and convincingly that actual controversy has ceased; it must appear that the only judgment which could be entered would be ineffectual for any purpose and would be an idle act so far as concerns rights involved in the action (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“each litigant pays for the services performed by his attorney and in the absence of a special agreement or statutory provision no part thereof except as taxable costs can be recovered from his adversary.”
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.