Chaloner v. Sherman’s Empirical Analysis
242 U.S. 455 · 1917
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1996 · most notably Gault (1967), Parham v. J. R. (1979)
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedChaloner v. Sherman (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Hilton v. Guyot · United States v. Throckmorton · Simon v. Craft · Howard v. United States
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... was a mere substitution of one officer of the court for another. No substantial right of the plaintiff was affected. Due process does not require notice and opportunity to be heard in such a proceeding; and the irregularity, if any, was not such as to prevent the court from exercising jurisdiction to determine the matter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““That court had jurisdiction because the plaintiff and his property were in New York; and the essentials of due process of law were met. The orders, consequently, are not void; and they are not subject to this collateral attack. [See United States v. Throckmorton, 98 U.S. 61 , 25 L.Ed. 93 ; Hilton v. Guyot, 159 U.S. 113, 207 , 16 S.Ct. 139 , 40 L.Ed. 95 ], If it be true that the orders ought to be set aside * * * the remedy must be sought by a direct proceeding to that end.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““As the plaintiff had notice and opportunity to be heard at each stage of these proceedings the essential elements of due process of law were fully met, and the court had jurisdiction to enter that order. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.