Dunham v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
198 F.2d 316 · 1952
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 1975 · most notably Skelly Oil Co. v. Wickham (1953), 260 F. Supp. 704 - Rippey v. Denver United States National Bank (1966)
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 Webster v. Fall · William Shields v. Robert R Barrow · Niles-Bement-Pond Co. v. Iron Moulders Union Local No. 68 · Kansas v. Missouri · Titus v. Wallick
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This provides that when persons are not indispensable, but ought to be parties if complete relief is to be accorded, the court shall order them summoned to appear if they can be made parties without depriving the court of jurisdiction; and also that the court in its discretion may proceed without making such persons parties if their joinder would deprive the court of jurisdiction of the parties before it, but in such case the judgment renderéd does not affect the rights or liabilities of absent persons. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Mandel““Necessary parties are sometimes said to be those within the jurisdiction of the court whose presence is necessary to a complete adjudication of the controversy but whose interests are separable and of such a nature that the court may proceed to final judgment in their absence without adversely affecting them.””
1 later decision 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.