Chapman v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
114 U.S. 158 · 1885
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 12 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1935 · most notably Taubel-Scott-Kitzmiller Co. v. Fox (1924), Taubel-Scott-Kitzmiller Co. v. Fox (1924)
14 federal appellate · 12 district · 12 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 Covell v. Heyman · Freeman v. Howe · Krippendorf v. Hyde · Holland v. Challen · Cummings v. National Bank
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“except in cases where such injunction may be authorized by any law relating to proceedings in bankruptcy,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It must be held that Congress, in authorizing a suit in equity in a case like the present, has, in order to make the other relief granted completely effective, authorized an injunction as necessarily incidental and consequent to prevent further proceedings under the levies already made and new levies under the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sargent v. Helton
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.