Chappuis v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1980
6 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 State ex rel. Canal Bank v. North American Land & Timber Co. · Eisenhauer v. New Orleans Cotton Exchange
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We merely hold that a pledgee, even though he is in possession of an irrevocable power of attorney, has no right of ownership conferred upon him, and has not the legal right to have the stock transferred to him unless and until the maturity of his debt for which the stock is given in pledge."”
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.