Chapman v. Parr’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2018
8 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 Ainscow v. Alexander · Evans v. Evans · Gulf Oil Company v. Woodson · First Nat. Bank of Seminole v. Henshaw · Wible v. Wible
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The common law, as modified by constitutional and statutory law, judicial decisions and the condition and wants of the people, shall remain in force in aid of the general statutes of Oklahoma....” [Emphasis added.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In addition to the other counties in which an action may be brought against a nonresident of this state, or a foreign corporation, such action may be brought in any county in which there may be property of or debts owing to such defendant, or where such defendant may be found, or in any county where a codefendant may properly be sued ...” The proper venue for the petitioners' action against all of the other defendants which reside in Kingfisher County is governed by the special venue statute regarding motor vehicles, 12 O.S. 1991 § 141, and the general venue statute 12 O.S.1991 § 139. Section 141 provides in pertinent part: "The venue of civil actions for damages resulting from the use or operation of motor vehicles ... shall be at the option of the plaintiff or plaintiffs, in either of the following: 1. In any county of Oklahoma where service of summons can be obtained upon one or more of the defendants as now provided by law. 2. In any county where the damages or a part thereof were sustained. [[Image here]] Section 139 provides in pertinent part: “Every other action must be brought in the county in which the defendant or some one of the defendants resides or resided at the time the claim arose, or may be summoned ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stevens v. Blevins“Divorce was not recognized at common law, where divorces were either ecclesiastically or legislatively granted. The right to divorcee is recognized as purely a creature of statute.”
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.