Chandler v. Spear’s Empirical Analysis
1850
Citation profile
1 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably McKinstry v. Collins (1904), Moore v. Duke (1911)
1 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Jackson ex dem. Gilliland v. Woodruff · Jackson ex dem. Gee v. Oltz · University of Vermont v. of Reynolds · Paris v. Vail · Jackson ex dem. Ten Eyck v. Richards
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.
“this thirty first day of January, A.D. 1842, Oliver Hale and Daniel Brown, Richard G. personally appeared and acknowledged this instrument . . . to be their free act and deed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Stanzione“In the body of the deed one of the grantors is described as”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Stanzione
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.