Dial v. Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis
96 U.S. 340 · 1877
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 13 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1972 · most notably Mitchum v. Foster (1972), Toucey v. New York Life Insurance (1941)
41 federal appellate · 13 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Watson v. Jones · Peck v. Jenness · Jones v. United States · Diggs v. Wolcott
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A bill of foreclosure is bad, for misjoinder of parties and for multifariousness, where persons are made defendants thereto who claim title adversely to the mortgagor and the complainant, and the latter seeks in that suit to litigate and settle his rights.””
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.