Clark v. . Dillon’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently March 1946 · most notably Whitney v. Wenman (1905), Griffin v. . Long Island Railroad Co. (1886)
66 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 Cruger v. . the Hudson River Railroad Co. · Allis v. . Leonard · Spear v. Downing · Bates v. Rosekrans · Potter v. . Smith
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While it is competent for a party to move to make the pleadings of his adversary more definite and certain, yet, inasmuch as it is the primary duty of the party pleading to present a clear and unequivocal statement of his allegations, the onus of having them made so cannot he cast upon his adversary hy his own fault in failing to perform his duty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hammel v. Washburn
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.