Dunham v. Dunham’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 2001 · most notably Williams v. State of North Carolina (1942), John Haddock v. Harriet Haddock (1906)
48 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDunham v. Dunham
Relationships
Relies on Pennoyer v. Neff · Jones v. . Jones · The People v. . Baker · Amy v. The Supervisors · Ditson v. Ditson
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The considerations which have been mentioned make it clear that it is the duty of the applicant in an ex parte proceeding for divorce, on pain of obtaining an invalid decree, to avoid practicing any deception on the court in any matter affecting its jurisdiction or its discretion to proceed or not to the final determination of the cause.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grein v. Grein
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.