Perry v. . Dickerson’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently December 1974 · most notably Kennedy v. . City of New York (1909), Cook v. . Conners (1915)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 86 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Secor v. . Sturgis · Bendernagle v. Cocks · Guernsey v. Carver · Miller v. Covert · Phillips v. Bericic
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law, to prevent vexatious or oppressive litigation, forbids the splitting up of one single or entire causo of action into parts, and the bringing of separate actions for each.” Andrews, J., Perry v. Dickerson, 85 N. Y. 345 , 39 Am. Rep. 663 .”
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.