United States v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
268 U.S. 121 · 1925
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 12 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. State of West Virginia State of Ohio (1923), Garrett v. Co (1942)
47 federal appellate · 12 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Kagama · Heckman v. United States · Tiger v. Western Investment Co. · Grymes v. Sanders · Antoine Michoud v. Peronne Bernardine Girod
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is an undoubted principle of this court that as between a cestui que trust and trustee and all parties claiming under the trustee, otherwise than by purchase for valuable consideration without notice, all property belonging to a trust, however much it may be changed or altered in its nature or character, and all the fruits of such property, whether it is in its original or its altered state, continues to be subject to or affected by the trust.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“exercised his power of disposition for his own benefit, that conduct, without more, was”
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.