Dewing v. Perdicaries’s Empirical Analysis
96 U.S. 193 · 1877
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1951 · most notably Dickerman v. Northern Trust Co. (1900), Daniels v. Tearney (1880)
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 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 Farrington v. Tennessee · Dodge v. Woolsey · Texas v. White · Alexander Hodges v. New England Screw Companys. · President, Directors & Co. of Mechanics' Bank v. New-York & New Haven Railroad
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The avails of the litigation, if there be any, go to the corporation, and are a part of its means, as if it had itself sued and recovered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Dennett
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.