McCorkle v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis

1918

Citation profile

cited by 43 later decisions

states following

December 1973

most recently cited

43 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 1973 · most notably Hopkins v. Commonwealth (1925), Wolf v. Commonwealth (1926)

43 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 Garvey v. Garvey · Brown v. Daniels · Commonwealth v. Lexington & Eastern Railway Co. · Crawford v. Wiedemann · Continental Insurance v. Ramsey

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.

““Our duties consist in the correction of errors committed by the trial court, and, if counsel for appellant is unable to point out any such errors, it is our duty to affirm the judgment, not only in deference to the trial court, but further because our time is too valuable to search for that which is of such little importance that counsel will not dignify it by pointing it out.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Neace v. Commonwealth
“, “When counsel for appellant does not point out in his brief any point in the judgment appealed from, or assign any reason why it should be reversed, the court, having neither the time nor the inclination to hunt for errors that might justify a reversal, will assume that the judgment appealed from is correct, and ■affirm it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Paintsville Hay & Feed Store v. Vanhoose-Maggard Co.

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.