Dunning v. . Leavitt’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably Lewis v. Benedict Coal Corp. (1960), Meyerson v. New Idea Hosiery Co. (1927)
3 federal appellate · 57 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Lawrence v. . Fox · Vrooman v. . Turner · Coster v. Mayor, Aldermen & Commonalty · Garnsey v. . Rogers · Burr v. . Beers
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no justice in holding that an action on such a promise is not subject to the equities between the original parties springing out of the transaction or contract between them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it would be contrary to justice or good sense to hold that [a third-party beneficiary] should acquire a better right against the promisor than the promisee himself had”
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.