Chase v. Meter’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Hill v. Preston (1931), Egbert v. Egbert (1948)
2 federal appellate · 41 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 Hanlon v. Doherty · Elston v. Castor · Thomas v. Simmons · Lawson v. DeBolt · Haggerty v. Byrne
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The true test of merger is the intention of the party, either expressed or implied. If the intention has not been expressed it will be sought for and ascertained in all the circumstances of the transaction. If it appears from all the circumstances to be for the benefit of the party acquiring both interests, that merger shall not take place, but that the equitable or lesser estate shall be kept alive, then his intention that such a result will follow will be presumed and equity will carry it into execution by preventing a merger. If, from all the circumstances, a merger would be disadvantageous to the party, then his intention that it should not result will be presumed.” (Emphasis supplied)”
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.