Horace Dunbar v. Lottie E Dunbar’s Empirical Analysis
190 U.S. 340 · 1903
Citation profile
102 federal appellate · 55 district · 112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 391 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Williams v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. (1915), Wetmore v. Markoe (1904)
102 federal appellate · 55 district · 112 state decisions — followed in 23 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.
Relationships
Relies on Roehm v. Horst · Audubon v. Shufeldt · Pierce v. Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad · Schell v. . Plumb
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 391 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In section 63b provision is made for unliquidated claims against the bankrupt, which may be liquidated upon application to the court in such manner as it shall direct, and may thereafter be proved and allowed against his estate. This paragraph ‘b,’ however, adds nothing to the class of debts which might be proved under paragraph ‘a’ of the same section. Its purpose is to permit an unliquidated claim, coming within the provisions of section 63a, to be liquidated as the court should direct.””
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We think it was not the intention of Congress, in passing a bankruptcy act, to provide for the releasé’ of the father from his obligation to support his children by his discharge in bankruptcy * *”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““W9 do not think that by the use of the language in section 63a it was intended to permit proof of contingent debts or liabilities or demands, the valuation or estimation of which it was substantially impossible to prove.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.