Chambers v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
41 F.2d 299 · 1930
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 1988
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Florsheim Bros. Drygoods Co. v. United States · Lucas v. Pilliod Lumber Co. · Sheets v. Selden's Lessee · Lewis-Hall Iron Works v. Blair
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general current of the modern authorities on the interpretation of . . . statutes, where time is to be computed from a particular day or a particular event, . . . is to exclude the day thus designated, and to include the last day of the specified period.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.