Choate v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 1980
13 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 Insurance Company v. Hallock · Hinton v. Brown · State v. Davis · Wheaton v. Thompson · Sullivan v. City of Helena
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The case of Insurance Co. v. Hallock, 6 Wall. 556 ( 18 L. Ed. 948 ), does decide that an order of sale issued by a court of this state was void because not attested by the seal of the court. It has also been held by this court that, where there is no statute to the contrary, a writ or record must be attested by the seal of the court from which it comes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Starkey v. Lunz
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.