Dick v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 1997
6 federal appellate · 5 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 24 Tenn. App. 439 - Miller v. Proctor · Howell v. Townsend · First National Bank of Murfreesboro v. First National Bank of Nashville · Edmund J. Rappoli Co. v. United States · Traders' Nat. Bank v. First Nat. Bank
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These cases, in so far as they deal with similar circumstances, proceed on the theory that a delivery is completed when the subject of delivery is posted in the mail. “The test of delivery, as noted in our cases, is the power of the grantor of a deed or maker of a note to recall the same. Has he parted with dominion and control over it? If so, there has been a delivery. * * * “Heretofore it has been assumed that when a letter was posted it was beyond the control of the sender, and became the property of the addressee as soon as put in the mail. 13 C.J. 302. We think all the cases relied on by the complainant are based on this supposition. “If a letter, when posted, can be regarded as beyond the control of the sender, then it may well be concluded that delivery of its contents to the addressee has been perfected. “By the United States Post Office Regulations (1913) §§ 552, 553, a change has been made as to rights of the parties. The writer or sender may now apply for a letter, which is put in the mail, and when it is properly identified, the postmaster must return it to him, or telegraph to the office of the addressee, whose postmaster must return it to the post office where mailed, if it has not been delivered. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Post-office regulations as to reclaiming letter. The rule that acceptance is final when the letter has been posted was modified by United State Post Office Regulations 1913 §§ 552, 553, that the writer or sender may apply for a letter which he has put in the mail, and when it is properly identified the postmaster must return it to him or telegraph to the office of the addressee, whose postmaster must return it to the mailing postmaster if it has not been delivered, to the effect that a letter which has been posted, but which has been returned under such regulations, does not constitute an acceptance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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