Dumbach v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2001
12 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 Cornell v. Vanartsdalen · Stephens v. Cotterell · Robb's Appeal · Johnson v. Watson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the principle thus broadly stated has sometimes been recognized, the better and more generally received opinion is that the disqualification is restricted to communications of a confidential nature, and does not embrace ordinary business transactions and conversations in which others have participated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the disqualification incident to coverture continued after the death of [the witness's] husband, and is not limited to what occurred in their confidential intercourse, but extends to all facts and transactions which came to her knowledge during their marital relations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“relates only to living husbands and wives, and makes no provision in the case of the death of either.... Hence the general authorities applicable without any reference to the act of 1887 are the ones which control the present question.”
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.