Chouteau v. Goddin’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1985 · most notably Buhler v. Loftus (1917), State Bank v. Frame (1892)
1 federal appellate · 21 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 Taylor v. Zepp · Franklin v. Osgood · Newman v. Hook
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Where a party by his acts or words causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous condition, he will be concluded from averring anything to the contrary against the party so altering his condition. ””
4 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.