Chaffe v. DuBose’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1953
7 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 Wilson v. Mutual Fire Insurance · Waln v. City of Beverly
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the pledgor could control his pledges and prevent his collecting the pledge, or disposing of it after the time permitted, or restrict him in the mode of collecting it, the value and utility of this form of security would vanish.””
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.