Chapman v. Handley’s Empirical Analysis
151 U.S. 443 · 1894
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1939
1 federal appellate · 1 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 Gibson v. Shufeldt · Henderson v. Carbondale Coal & Coke Co. · New Orleans Pacific Railway Co. v. Parker · Miller v. Clark
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These claims of distributees are several, and not joint, and a joint application for distribution can only result in judgments in severalty. * * * It is tiie distinct and separate share of each distributee that is involved in the proceeding; and although, in this instance, if the children of the plural wife had been admitted to share, they would have obtained, and an amount in excess of 85,000 would have been withdrawn from the oilier children, the gain on the one side and the diminution on the other would have been proportionate as to each, and not in the aggregate as to all.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Putney v. Whitmire
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.