Chandler v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 1993
7 federal appellate · 10 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Apperson & Co. v. Burgett · Burnham v. Kempton
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.
““In chancery, all the parties in interest, and whose rights may he affected, ought to be made parties to the bill; and if the court is called upon, in the exercise of its discretion, to dispense with the proper parties, some reason therefor ought to be disclosed in the bill. 1 8 All persons so circumstanced that, unless their rights are bound by the decree, they may cause future molestation to the party against whom relief is sought, should be brought before the court””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.