Chitwood v. McMillan’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1994 · most notably Barnes Group, Inc. v. C & C Products, Inc. (1983), Love v. Gamble (1994)
6 federal appellate · 20 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.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“parties to a contract have a property right therein, which a third person has no more right maliciously to deprive them of, or injure them in, than he would have to injure their property. Such an injury, without sufficient justification, amounts to a tort for which the injured party may seek compensation by an action in tort for damages.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen a partnership enters into a contract, ... such contract is not with the individual members of the firm but with the partnership as an entity distinct from its members.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A partnership under the law is an entity separate and distinct from the persons who compose it.”
2 later decisions 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.