Chambers v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 1965
19 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 Pearson v. Darrington · McNeill's Adm'r v. McNeill's Creditors · Chapman v. Hamilton · Crocker v. Clements' Adm'r · Pulliam v. Owen
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the aspect in which the bill was framed, there was no non-joinder of parties defendant; but the demurrer for this cause did not point out who the absent parties were, and it was for this, if for no other reason, defective. Chapman v. Hamilton, 19 Ala. 121 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hoiles v. Taylor
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.