Crippen v. Chappel’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably Emmert v. Thompson (1892), Hartford Fire Insurance v. Western Fire Insurance (1979)
2 federal appellate · 44 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Relationships
Relies on Vallé's Heirs v. Fleming's Heirs · Levy v. Martin · Tyrrell v. Ward · 31 N.J. Eq. 105 - Coe v. New Jersey Midland Railway Co. · Homœopathic Mutual Life Insurance v. Marshall
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... It always requires something more than the mere payment of the debt in order to entitle the person paying the same to be substituted in the place of the original creditor. It requires an assignment, legal or equitable, from the original creditor, or an agreement or understanding on the part of the party liable to pay the debt, that the person furnishing the money to pay the same shall in effect become the creditor, or the person furnishing the money must furnish the same either because he is liable as surety or liable in some other secondary character, or for the purpose of saving or protecting some right or interest, or supposed right or interest, of his own. ..." (p. 499.) (Emphasis added.)”
6 later decisions 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.