Claflin v. Dunne’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 2 Ill. 2d 568 - Chmielewski v. Marich (1954), Fredrich v. Wolf (1943)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 51 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 Life Ass'n of America v. Fassett · Danforth v. Danforth · Reid v. Holmes · Coleman v. McAnulty · Stoetzell v. Fullerton
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Judgments,for or against deceased persons are not generally regarded as void on that account, and while the court ought to cease to exercise its jurisdiction over a party when he dies, its failure to do so is an error to be corrected on appeal, if the fact of the death appears upon the record, or by writ of error coram, nobis, if the fact must be shown aliunde.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. King v. Mitchell““ The error, if it be one, was an error of fact, which could only be corrected by a writ of error coram, nobis.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. King v. Mitchell
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.