Henderson v. Chesley’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Schnitt v. McKellar (1968), White v. Smyth (1948)
39 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.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Oil is a substance peculiar to itself, and behaves in different ways under different conditions; and, certainly, the court may take into account the habit of the substance which is to be partitioned, and apply the rules of law and equity thereto in a manner to attain its equitable partition.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gilbreath v. Douglas
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.