Chickaming v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
106 U.S. 663 · 1882
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1992 · most notably United States v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1948), Watson v. Allen (1958)
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 17 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 Bushnell v. Kennedy · Davenport v. County of Dodge · President of the Bank of Kentucky v. Wister · New Buffalo v. Iron 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have not been referred to any decisions by the courts of Michigan to the contrary, and, construing the .statute for ourselves, we think that valid bonds may be issued after the time. This being so, the antedating does not invalidate the bonds.””
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.