Dunham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 576 So. 2d 1310 - Perkins v. State (1991), 159 W. Va. 34 - Wolfe v. Forbes (1975)
4 federal appellate · 47 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 Ex parte Amos · Fitch v. State · Townsend v. State · Brock v. State
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]ailment is defined ... "as a delivery of personalty for some particular purpose, or on mere deposit, upon a contract, express or implied, that after the purpose has been fulfilled it shall be redelivered to the person who delivered it, or otherwise dealt with according to his directions, or kept until he reclaims it, as the case may be."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“general and specific words which are capable of an analogous meaning being associated together take color from each other, so that the general words are restricted to a sense analogous to the less general.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“occupations specified are those which are governed by the law of bailments and, we believe, that the broader term 'any other person' was meant to refer to one following a like pursuit”
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.