Chellis v. Coble’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1971
14 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 Brant v. Virginia Coal and Iron Company et al. · Davis v. Davis · Mays v. Manufacturers' National Bank · Hynson v. Burton
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Counsel insist that the law implies a knowledge [on the part of the true owner] of whatever took place in the bankrupt proceedings. That is true so far as the matters connected with the transactions in which he was interested or was bound to be interested by virtue of his claim against the estate, and no further.” (p. 566.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Woodman v. Davison
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.