Chamberlain v. Waite’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2016
5 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sec. 274.12, Stats., contemplates that all persons in any way interested adversely to the appellant in a matter brought up by appeal should be made parties to the appeal. As much reason existed for making the residuary legatees parties to the appeal as existed for making them parties tO' the proceeding in the first instance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. O'Deal v. Hartford
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.