Chappell v. Cosgrove’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Mitchell-Carr v. McLendon (1999), Sanders v. Rosenberg (1996)
2 district · 23 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1654
Relies on 186 W. Va. 195 - Smithson v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Cottonwood Estates, Inc. v. Paradise Builders, Inc. · 19 Kan. App. 2d 740 - LeaseAmerica Corp. v. Stewart · Skeen v. Chase Manhattan Bank · Kalmanovitz v. G. Heileman Brewing Co., Inc.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n attorney may not be disqualified under Rule 16-307 absent a showing by the party seeking disqualification ■ that the attorney’s testimony is material to an issue in the case, that the evidence to be elicited from the attorney’s testimony is not available from another source, and that the attorney’s testimony is potentially prejudicial to his client’s case. 36”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[N]either the writ of prohibition nor the writ of superintending control should be used as a substitute for a decision on direct or interlocutory appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Valerio“an issue of first impression ... without clear answers under New Mexico law,”
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.