Dunham v. Stitzberg’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Jernigan v. New Amsterdam Casualty Company (1961), Hollingsworth v. Hicks (1953)
2 federal appellate · 56 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
Applies 25 U.S.C. § 375
Relies on Ellis v. Davis · United States v. Hellard · People v. Jones · William Hill Co. v. Lawler · Ferris v. Higley
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The district court shall have original jurisdiction in all matters and causes not excepted in this constitution."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Children omitted from will — Receive intestate share. — If any person make his last will and die, leaving a child or children, or descendants of such child or children, in case of their death, not named or provided, for in such will, although born after the making of such will, every such testator, so far as shall regard such child or children, or their descendants not provided for, shall be deemed to die intestate; and such child or children, or their descendants, shall be entitled to such proportion of the estate of the testator, real and personal, as if he had died intestate; and the same shall be assigned to them, and all the other heirs, devisees, and legatees shall refund their proportional part.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The notice of hearing above referred to [upon final account and report] * * * shall contain the title of the cause and be addressed to all of the heirs, legatees and devisees as shown in the report, or petition for appointment of the administrator or will, and to all unknown heirs of said decedent and all unknown persons claiming any lien upon or right, title or interest in, or to the estate of said decedent, * * *."”
2 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.