Donnell v. Dansby’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 1961 · most notably Morriss v. Barton (1947), Lee v. Tonsor (1916)
1 federal appellate · 36 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 Lathrop v. Bampton · Chaquette v. Ortet · Theller v. Such · In re Allgier · American Trust Co. v. Chitty
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* « * The father was entitled to the custody, services, and earnings of plaintiffs during their minority (section 4368, Rev. Laws 1910), and was charged by law with the duty to support and educate them in a manner suitable to their circumstances (section 4367) ; and. if he could not reasonably afford to maintain and educate them in keeping therewith, he might, under the direction of the county court, defray the expense of such maintenance and education from the income of their individual property (section 05.35), but the authority given by this section does not authorize the payment thereof from the corpus of the estate, in other words, from the capital. Being entitled to the services and earnings of the plaintiffs, and the duty to educate and maintain them being imposed upon him by law, and not having made any claim for such allowances in his lifetime, the sureties in this action cannot make such claim for him. To have entitled him to credit, the expenditures must have been made under- the direction of the cóunty court, and no claim is made that such authority was obtained.* * *"”
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.