Chastleton Corporation v. Sinclair’s Empirical Analysis
264 U.S. 543 · 1924
Citation profile
108 federal appellate · 34 district · 180 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 463 later decisions (50 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), United States v. Carolene Products Co. (1938)
108 federal appellate · 34 district · 180 state decisions — followed in 26 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
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co. · Henning Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Monongahela Navigation Co. v. United States · Block v. Hirsh
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 463 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] Court is not at liberty to shut its eyes to an obvious mistake, when the validity of the law depends upon the truth of what is declared”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is objected that the plaintiffs have an adequate remedy at law by way of appeal. But, apart from the fact that it is doubtful whether the Chastleton Corporation and Hahn were not entitled to treat the order as a nullity so far as they were concerned, it is open to equal doubt whether, in a proceeding under the law, they could assail its validity. There are many tenants to be dealt with. However looked at, a bill in equity is the natural and best way of settling the parties’ rights.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gilbert v. Sargent
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.