Charest v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1985
7 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 In re Paschal · In the Matter of H____, an Attorney · Schell v. Mayor of New York · Anderson v. Bosworth · Landro v. Great Northern Railway Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There can be no serious question of the authority and jurisdiction of the court to entertain the petition and to summarily hear and dispose of the questions thus presented.... The money having served the intended purpose petitioner was entitled to have it returned. [Though] the power of the court to compel a return in the manner here adopted is conferred by [statute,] the statutory authority is merely declaratory of the common law on the subject....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Grant
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.