Chapin v. Posner’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2018
5 federal appellate · 9 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 Hulbert v. . Clark · Sharrow v. . Inland Lines, Ltd. · Ackerman v. . Ackerman · Olcott v. . the Tioga Railroad Company · Mack v. Mendels
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sec. 19. “Effect of defendant’s absence from state or residence under false name. If, when the cause of action accrues against a person, he is without the state, the action may be commenced, within the time limited therefor, after his coming into or return to the state. If, after a cause of action has accrued against a person, he departs from the state and remains continuously absent therefrom for the space of four months or more, or if, without the knowledge of the person entitled to maintain the action, he resides within the state under a false name, the time of his absence or of such residence within the state under such false name is not a part of the time limited for the commencement of the action * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“termination of the limitation period as to principal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“six years prior to the commencement of this action”
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.