Chapman v. Hoage’s Empirical Analysis
296 U.S. 526 · 1936
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 3 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 173 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2016 · most notably Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki (1946), Mitchell v. The Etna (1943)
61 federal appellate · 3 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 10 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
reviewedChapman v. Hoage (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Slocum v. New York Life Insurance · Guaranty Co. v. Pressed Brick Co. · Aetna Life Insurance v. Moses · United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Poetker
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 173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The insurer is given a right of subrogation, not ’to enable him to avoid his undertaking to indemnify, but that it may not be enlarged beyond that of ‘ indemnity. Standard Marine Insurance Co. v. Scottish Metropolitan Assurance Co., Ltd., 283 U.S. 284, 288 , 51 S.Ct. 371 , 75 L.Ed. 1037 . He is not prejudiced by failure to prosecute a claim after it has been demonstrated to be groundless.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Section 33(a) only provides for release of the employer’s liability for compensation when the claim against the third party is compromised without the employer’s consent. In other respects, his rights and liabilities, so far as he is in the position of a surety or indemnitor, are governed, as the court below held, by the general principles of suretyship.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“employer . . . remains liable for any amount by which the recovery against the [wrongdoer] falls short of the prescribed compensation.”
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.