Dunn v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2005
14 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 Boggs v. Fowler & Hargrave · Hammond v. Cailleaud · Howell v. . Mills · Lefevre v. Laraway · Allen v. Martin
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Until confirmation the sale is in fieri and subject to the control of the court, but this control is a judicial, not an arbitrary one, and confirmation must follow unless there exists some reason recognized by law as warranting a refusal to confirm.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rime v. Streibig
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.