Chittenden v. Witbeck’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 1952
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Mitchell v. . Reed · Mitchell v. . Read · Anderson v. . Lemon
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If these (Featherstonhaugh v. Fenwick, and Mit chell v. Reed) and similar cases are applicable to the facts now under investigation, we should not hesitate to apply them; for the general principle they declare is not only one‘of law but of common honesty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ladas v. Psiharis
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.