Chesney v. Chesney’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1954
3 federal appellate · 5 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 Richards v. Travelers' Insurance · Mayor of Los Angeles v. Signoret · California State Telegraph Co. v. Patterson · Moore v. . Hobbs · Shafer v. Bear River & Auburn Water & Mining 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Respondent, however, insists that although the demurrer should have been sustained when it was interposed for defects in the complaint, nevertheless, such defects having been cured by the answer, therefore the judgment is supported by the pleadings. This rule has so often been enforced, and its application has become so general, that it may be said to be an elementary rule of practice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holcomb v. Holcomb
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.