Chapman v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2008
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 Stephen & Stephen Properties, Inc. v. State Tax Com'n · State Ex Rel. Sei v. Haid · DePoortere v. Commercial Credit Corporation · In Re the Estate of Hough · Becker v. St. Francois County
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has become totally and permanently incapacitated for duty at some definite time and place as the natural and proximate result of an accident occurring while in the actual performance of duty through no negligence on the member’s part ...”
2 later decisions 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.