Chapman v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 1949
16 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 Bramlett v. McVey
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true that judgments of courts of general jurisdiction are not to be lightly assailed, and every reasonable intendment and presumption will be indulged in their favor. But courts speak only by their records, and, when a record shows the absence of essential jurisdictional facts, those facts cannot be supplied by presumption. ’ ’”
2 later decisions 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.