Chambers v. Hawkins’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 1966 · most notably Ludwig v. Johnson (1932), Jones v. Cary (1941)
3 federal appellate · 41 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 Winston's Administrator v. City of Henderson · Beard v. Klusmeier · Ray v. Ray · Stephenson's Administratrix v. Sharp's Executors · Consolidated Coach Corporation v. Hopkins
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the absence of something to indicate that there was a deliberate purpose to get before the jury that there was an insurance company involved in the case, such statements cannot be considered prejudicial. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Huls v. Dalzell““We are aware that ‘back seat driving’ is always irritating, often confusing, and seldom helpful, and are not willing to give judicial sanction to that practice under circumstances like those here presented.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trimble v. Baker
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.