Chapman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
2 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 55 Cal. 2d 211 - Muskopf v. Corning Hospital District (1961), 57 Cal. 2d 508 - Souza & McCue Construction Co. v. Superior Court (1962)
2 district · 65 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Carr v. State ex rel. Coetlosquet · People v. . Stephens · Coster v. Mayor, Aldermen & Commonalty · Bourn v. Hart · Oregon Improvement Co. v. Seattle Gas Light Co.
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But when the sovereign engages in business and the conduct of business enterprises and contracts with individuals, whenever the contract in any form comes before the courts the rights and obligations of the contracting parties must be adjusted upon the same principle as if both contracting parties were private persons. Both stand upon equality before the law, and the sovereign is merged in the dealer, contractor, and suitor. (See, also, Carr v. State, 127 Ind. 204 [ 22 Am. St. Rep. 624 , 11 L. R. A. 370, 26 N. E. 778 ].)””
1 later decision 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.