Hepburn v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Adams v. Elliott, Et Vir (1937), Toye v. State (2014)
40 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 Harrell v. State · King v. State · Nadel v. Weber Bros. Shoe 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.
“the false making or material alteration, with intent to defraud, of any writing which, if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy or the foundation of a legal liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“with intent to injure or defraud any person”
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.