Dunphy v. Dunphy’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 1986 · most notably 13 Cal. 3d 1 - Sarracino v. Superior Court (1974), 33 Cal. 2d 717 - McClure v. Donovan (1949)
50 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 Estate of Dolbeer · People v. Willard · In re Estate of Redfield · Estate of McKenna · Kern v. Kern
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In support of the allegations of the complaint, a number of witnesses, having first qualified as intimate acquaintances of Dunphy, expressed the opinion that he was of unsound mind. In accordance with the provision of the Code of Civil Procedure (see. 1870, subd. 10) each of these witnesses gave ‘the reason for the opinion.’ The appellant undertakes to analyze the various reasons so given, and argues that they are not adequate to justify the conclusion drawn from them. Reliance is placed upon Estate of DoTbeer, 149 Cal. 227 [ 86 P. 695 , 9 Ann.Cas. 795], where it was said that the opinion of an intimate acquaintance respecting the mental sanity of a person ‘can have no weight other than that which the reasons’ (upon which it is based) ‘bring to its support.’ We do not understand this to mean that the appellate court is to put itself in the position of the trial court, and, from an examination of the reasons assigned, determine as an original question whether the opinion of the witness is to be given any weight or is to be rejected.” (See, also, 14 Cal.Jur. 372, Insane Persons, § 25.)”
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.