Chester Jordan v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts’s Empirical Analysis
225 U.S. 167 · 1912
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 3 district · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 239 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably Duncan v. State of Louisiana (1968), Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1934)
97 federal appellate · 3 district · 68 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 Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Albert Twining v. State of New Jersey · Kemmler
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 239 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“due process implies a tribunal both impartial and mentally competent to afford a hearing.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Warger v. Shauers · Fisher v. State
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.