Dunn v. Ponceler’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Ussery v. Darrow (1939), Sieben v. Torrey (1949)
2 federal appellate · 47 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 Pacific Railroad of Missouri v. Missouri Pacific Ry. Co. And Others. 1 · Ensminger v. Powers · Peters Mineral Land Co. v. Hooper · Shipman v. Furniss · Hafer v. Cole
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule obtaining in this jurisdiction, and which has been recognized and followed by this court for more than an hundred years, is that mere inadequacy of price, not sufficient to create the presumption of fraud, will not vitiate a judicial decision [sic], but when the inadequacy is so glaring and gross as at once to shock the understanding and conscience of an honest and just man, it will, of itself, authorize the court to set aside the sale. Henderson et al. v. Sublett et al., 21 Ala. 626 ; Ray’s Adm’r v. Womble, supra, [ 56 Ala. 32 ]; Danforth v. Burchfield, 201 Ala. 550 , 78 So. 904 ; and Powell v. Governor, 9 Ala. 36, 39 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Madison v. Ware“so grossly inadequate as to shock the conscience of a fair and honest man.”
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.