Dunham v. Dunham’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 41 district · 440 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 497 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Larsen Chelsey Realty Co. v. Larsen (1995), Santopietro v. City of New Haven (1996)
3 federal appellate · 41 district · 440 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 D'Ulisse-Cupo v. Board of Directors of Notre Dame High School · Breen v. Phelps · Finley v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co. · Cummings v. Tripp · Miller v. Appleby
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 497 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A fiduciary or confidential relationship is characterized by a unique degree of trust and confidence between the parties, one of whom has superior knowledge, skill or expertise and is under a duty to represent the interests of the other.”
44 later decisions quote this exact passage“Rather than attempt to define a fiduciary relationship in precise detail and in such a manner to exclude new situations, we have instead chosen to leave the bars down for situations in which there is a justifiable trust confided on one side and a resulting superiority and influence on the other.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n an equitable proceeding, a court may provide a remedy even though the governing statute of limitations has expired, just as it has discretion to dismiss for laches an action initiated within the period of the statute.... Although courts in equitable proceedings often look by analogy to the statute of limitations to determine whether, in the interests of justice, a particular action should be heard, they are by no means obliged to adhere to those time limitations.”
17 later decisions 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.