Bennett v. Chandler’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2004
2 federal appellate · 18 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
reviewedChandler v. Green
Relationships
Relies on Wood v. Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Co. · Ketchum v. Duncan · Bishop v. O'Conner · 14 N.J. Eq. 234 - Shinn v. Budd · Young v. Morgan
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a stranger within the meaning of this rule is not necessarily one who has had nothing to do with the transaction out of which the debt grew. Any one who is under no legal obligation or liability to pay the debt, is a stranger, and, if he pays the debt, a mere volunteer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Inasmuch, therefore, as Chandler was a mere volunteer-, he was not subrogated in any way to the rights of Mrs. Green, as the holder of the coupons in question. ’ ’”
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.