Stone v. Stone

How courts have described this case

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

• “In an action which challenges the conduct of a public officer, a presumption of law is indulged in his favor that his official duties were properly performed”
• “In an action which challenges the conduct of a public officer, a presumption of law is indulged in his favor that his official duties were properly performed.”
• “In an action which challenges the conduct of a public officer, a presumption of law is indulged in his favor that his official duties were properly performed.”
• trier of fact may not disregard “positive testimony, uncontradicted, and not inherently improbable”
• husband concealed fact he suffered from veneral disease

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

29 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Edouard Legille v. C. Marshall Dann, Commissioner of Patents
  D.C. Circuit· 1976-08-24· cited 102×
• Latif v. Obama
  D.C. Circuit· 2011-10-14· cited 37×
• Myers v. Gaither
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1967-08-10· cited 36×
• Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board
  First Circuit· 1976-06-10· cited 26×
• Belcon Inc. v. District of Columbia Water & Sewer Authority
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2003-06-12· cited 24×
• Latif v. Obama
  D.C. Circuit· 2011-11-09· cited 22×
• Schroeder v. Schroeder
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1957-07-01· cited 21×
• Competitive Enterprise Institute v. Office of Science and Technology Policy
  District of Columbia· 2017-03-13· cited 21×
• Hamilton v. Hojeij Branded Food, Inc.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2012-04-12· cited 19×
• Texas Co. v. Hood
  Fifth Circuit· 1947-05-09· cited 13×
• Perlman v. Chal-Bro., Inc.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1945-08-24· cited 9×
• Pueblo De Zia v. United States
  Court of Claims· 1964-04-17· cited 8×
• Wolfgang, Prince of Hesse v. Burrows
  D.C. Circuit· 1950-04-17· cited 7×
• Sullivan v. North American Accident Insurance Co.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1959-04-21· cited 7×
• In re Adoption of a Minor
  D.C. Circuit· 1943-06-14· cited 7×
• Koehne v. Price
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1949-10-13· cited 6×
• Anderson Co. v. Trico Products Corp.
  W.D. New York· 1958-01-17· cited 5×
• Lake v. Lake
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2000-08-03· cited 3×
• United States v. Harvey
  E.D. Louisiana· 1966-02-04· cited 3×
• Williams v. District of Columbia
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1957-04-04· cited 2×