Chapman v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
10 F.2d 156 · 1925
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2017 · most notably Schick v. Reed (1974), State v. Reed (1978)
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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 Ponzi v. Fessenden · United States v. George Wilson · Knote v. United States · State v. Chapman · 14 E.H. Smith 217 - Roberts v. . the State
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is urged that the exercise of the power of commutation is but the exercise of the pardoning prerogative in a lesser degree, and that, if the gift of a pardon is incomplete without acceptance, the lesser grant is surely so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blount v. Clarke“We may acknowledge the premise without acceding to the conclusion, because the fact is that a distinction does exist between a pardon and a commutation, and the legal principles applicable are no longer open to question,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blount v. Clarke“A conditional pardon is a grant, to the validity of which acceptance is essential. It may be rejected by the convict; and if rejected, there is no power to force it upon him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blount v. Clarke
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.