Chapman v. Sparta’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2019
3 district · 14 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 Howard v. Spafford · Messier v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · Morris v. American Motors Corp. · Bardwell Motor Inn, Inc. v. Accavallo · Zebrowski & Associates, Inc. v. City of Indianapolis Ex Rel. Board of Directors for Utilities of Department of Public Utilities
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to a party who, without active fault, has been compelled by some legal obligation, such as a finding of vicarious liability, to pay damages occasioned by the negligence of another.”
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.