Dunham v. Ottinger’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably People v. Federated Radio Corporation (1926), Carlisle v. Bennett (1935)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 64 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 Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Brown v. Walker · Hall v. Geiger-Jones Co. · Merrick v. N. W. Halsey & Co. · Caldwell v. Sioux Falls Stock Yards Co.
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It [the statute] does give ample protection against the use of such testimony in our own tribunals, and it is perfectly well established that this is a sufficient immunity; that all that the state is required to or can do is to give immunity against its own processes, and, if it has done that, as this statute does it, it has satisfied the requirements of the Constitution.””
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.