| | #Bleak House – 1852-53 (a character dies oddly by spontaneous combustion; also a criticism of the legal system, a never-ending Chancery case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce and the title is the name of their family home)<ref>https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bleak-House</ref> | | #Bleak House – 1852-53 (a character dies oddly by spontaneous combustion; also a criticism of the legal system, a never-ending Chancery case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce and the title is the name of their family home)<ref>https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bleak-House</ref> |
| − | :::This novel ''Bleak House'' by Dickens has been cited 338 times by [[American]] court decisions, including 197 times by federal courts (including 9 times by the [[U.S. Supreme Court]]), as of Oct. 2, 2022. ''See, e.g.'', ''Hughes Tool Co. v. TWA'', 409 U.S. 363, 393 (1973) (Burger, C.J., dissenting) (“To describe this litigation as a 20th-century sequel to Bleak House is only a slight exaggeration.”).
| + | #::This novel ''Bleak House'' by Dickens has been cited 338 times by [[American]] court decisions, including 197 times by federal courts (including 9 times by the [[U.S. Supreme Court]]), as of Oct. 2, 2022. ''See, e.g.'', ''Hughes Tool Co. v. TWA'', 409 U.S. 363, 393 (1973) (Burger, C.J., dissenting) (“To describe this litigation as a 20th-century sequel to Bleak House is only a slight exaggeration.”). |
| | #Little Dorrit – 1855-57 (about debtors' prison, which Dickens' father endured) | | #Little Dorrit – 1855-57 (about debtors' prison, which Dickens' father endured) |