Parchen v. Chessman’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
2 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 2004 · most notably Shea v. North-Butte Mining Co. (1919), Brownrigg v. Defrees (1925)
2 district · 56 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.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n · Francois Fenelon v. The Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of Philadelphia · Riddlesbarger v. Hartford Insurance · Moore v. Copp · Albany City Savings Institution v. . Burdick
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term “mistake” involves the conception that he to whom the fault expressed by it is imputed has been guilty of some degree of negligence which may or may not be excusable when viewed in the light of the circumstances of the particular case. Courts of equity are not bound by cast-iron rules.””
1 later decision 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.