Chowning v. Stanfield’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 1951
17 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Few impositions are better settled than that the rights of one who has done all that the law requires of him cannot be impaired by the subsequent neglect or want of fidelity of a public officer. Lytle v. State of Arkansas, 9 How. (U. S.) 333, 13 L. Ed. 153 ; Coleman v. Hill, 44 Ark. 452 ; Stark v. Mather, 12 Am. Dec. 567 , note; Nelson v. Simms, 23 Miss. 383 , 57 Am. Dec. 144 .””
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.