Dickerson v. Deno’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
March 2012
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 119 Ohio App. 3d 68 - Stepp v. Freeman · 212 Ill. App. 3d 216 - Fitchie v. Yurko · Miller v. Radikopf · Kaszuba v. Zientara · Welford v. Nobrega
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The plaintiffs [in Dickerson ]Sandra Deno, Angie Tisdale, Matthew Adams, and Jackie Fairleyand ... Tonda Dickerson were all employees at the Waffle House restaurant in Grand Bay, Alabama. Edward Seward ... was a regular customer of the Waffle House. On several occasions Seward would travel to Florida and purchase lottery tickets and upon his return would give the tickets to various friends and family members, including the employees of the Waffle House. Seward did not expect to share any potential lottery winnings based on the tickets he gave away, but he claimed that he was promised a new truck by the employees of the Waffle House if one of the tickets he distributed there was a winning ticket. Several employees of the Waffle House received lottery tickets from Seward during the several weeks that he gave out the tickets. "A drawing for the Florida lottery was scheduled for Saturday night, March 6, 1999. During the week before that drawing, Seward traveled to Florida and purchased several lottery tickets. He placed each individual ticket in a separate envelope and wrote the name of the intended recipient on the outside of the envelope. On March 6, 1999, before the lottery drawing, Seward presented... Deno, Tisdale, and Adams each with an envelope containing one lottery ticket. The drawing was held as scheduled. The numbers on the lottery tickets held by Deno, Tisdale, and Adams did not match the numbers drawn in the March 6 drawing. "On March 7, 1999, after the March 6 dr”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Seward v. Dickerson“All contracts founded in whole or in part on a gambling consideration are void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dickerson v. Comm'r“contract[] founded ... on a gambling consideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Seward v. Dickerson
How this case has been treated — in progress
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