Dodge v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Willing v. Chicago Auditorium Ass'n (1928), 174 Ill. 2d 1 - Committee for Educational Rights v. Edgar (1996)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 54 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Curtiss v. Brown · Wight v. Wallbaum · Eddy v. People ex rel. Eddy
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the fact that no precedent can be found in which relief has been granted under a similar state of facts is no reason for refusing it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.