Du Pont v. Du Pont

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “A determination that a party has been untruthful, of course, affects the credibility of his whole testimony, and lying on one issue inevitably impairs one's chances of prevailing on any other disputed point.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rethorst v. Rethorst
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1957-06-12· cited 26×
• Schneider v. Schneider
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1994-07-18· cited 13×
• Weinberg v. Baltimore Brick Company
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1955-03-16· cited 4×
• JONATHAN GOVETTE v. ELECTRONIC REFERRAL MANAGER, INC., DAVID BONGIOVANI, RICK HAMMER AND JOSEPH MACALUSO
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2025-10-15

Cites

27 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Parsons v. Bedford, Breedlove, & Robeson
  Supreme Court· 1830-02-18· cited 609×
• Hovey v. Elliott
  Supreme Court· 1897-05-24· cited 485×
• Crozier v. Fried. Krupp Aktiengesellschaft
  Supreme Court· 1912-04-08· cited 155×
• John Roane, Inc. v. Tweed
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1952-06-12· cited 91×
• Peyton v. William C. Peyton Corp.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1939-06-20· cited 69×
• Maurer v. International Re-Insurance Corp.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1953-03-27· cited 68×
• New York Trust Co. v. Riley
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1940-10-29· cited 47×
• Stabler v. Ramsay
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1952-05-07· cited 42×
• Equitable Trust Co. v. Gallagher
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1954-02-05· cited 37×
• Lutcher & Moore Lumber Co. v. Knight
  Supreme Court· 1910-04-11· cited 29×
• Brown v. Brown
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1942-10-12· cited 29×
• Anonymous v. Anonymous
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1951-12-11· cited 28×
• Great American Indemnity Co. v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1952-05-07· cited 21×
• Nashville Ry. & Light Co. v. Bunn
  Sixth Circuit· 1909-04-09· cited 20×
• Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. of America v. Simon
  Supreme Court· 1918-03-04· cited 15×
• Closz v. Closz
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1918-10-25· cited 15×
• Carlisle v. Delaware Trust Co.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1953-10-24· cited 14×
• Coast Co. v. Mayor of Spring Lake
  New Jersey Court of Chancery· 1896-12-12· cited 14×
• duPont v. duPont
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1954-03-01· cited 12×
• Nichols v. Nichols
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1920-11-09· cited 12×