Chastain v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Collins v. Lombard Corp. (1998), Citizens for Ethical Government, Inc. v. Gwinnett Place Associates, L.P. (1990)
43 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 Young v. Climatrol Southeast Distributing Corp. · Mooney v. Mooney · James v. State of Georgia · Goodyear v. Trust Co. Bank · Gober v. Colonial Pipeline Co.
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 court will upon its own motion dismiss an appeal where it affirmatively appears that a decision would be of no benefit to the complaining party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“One which does not rest upon existing facts or rights. [Cit.] Hypothetical question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no reason appears why it would evade review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.