Chamberlain v. . Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2021
4 federal appellate · 16 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.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he point to be considered is, whether the plaintiff in any sense, actual or legal, has lost by the default of the defendant a sum equal to the expense of digging the well.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he defendant was not paid for digging a well for the plaintiff on the premises.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the work and labor which the defendant was to perform.”
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.