Chappell v. Bradshaw’s Empirical Analysis
128 U.S. 132 · 1888
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2014 · most notably Chelentis v. Luckenbach Steamship Co. (1918), Red Cross Line v. Atlantic Fruit Co. (1924)
3 federal appellate · 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 Spies v. Illinois · The Anarchists' Case Spies · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Pennsylvania
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) “ Where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty, or statute of, or authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against their validity; ” (2) “ Where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under, any State on the ground of their being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties or laws of the United States, and the decision is in favor of their validity ; ” (3) “ Or where any title, right, privilege or immunity is claimed under the Constitution, or any treaty or statute of, or commission held or authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege or immunity specially set up and claimed by either party under such Constitution, statute, commission or authority.””
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.