Chapman v. Shepard’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1990
15 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
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.
““Where the subject-matter of a sale is part of an ascertained mass of uniform quality and value, no selection is required ; and in this class of cases it is affirmed by authorities of the highest character that severance is not, as a matter of law, necessary in order to vest the legal title in the vendee to the part sold. The title may and will pass if such is the clear intention of the contracting parties, and if there is no other reason than want of separation to prevent the transfer of the title.” (Chapman v. Shepard, 39 Conn. 413 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kingman v. Holmquist
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.