Splawn v. Chew’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently May 1961 · most notably Delaney v. Delaney (1898), Masonic Benevolent Ass'n v. Bunch (1891)
1 district · 58 state decisions — followed in 18 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.
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A method by which he [the member] may accomplish it [the change in beneficiaries] to the satisfaction of the order is pointed out, * * * but we do not consider this as exclusive of all other ways of effecting the same object. The design of this section is to protect the interests of the corporation. The company are entitled to know who are the parties entitled to the benefit money, and this is an effectual and certain means of giving that information. But, like all such provisions in the by-laws of private corporations, it may be waived at the option of the corporation, being for its benefit alone.” Splawn v. Chew, 60 Tex. 532 .”
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.