Dutton v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 1964 · most notably Schneider v. Lipscomb County National Farm Loan Ass'n (1947), Zarate v. Villareal (1913)
44 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.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We see no reason why limitation would not run against a person having such interest in land, although the state could not be thus barred.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitaker v. McCarty
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.