Scott v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1949
7 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 Root v. Potter · Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railway Co. v. Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railroad
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.
““It is the settled law of this State that creditors cannot attack the interest of third parties, alleged to have been obtained by fraud, until they have obtained a standing by legal proceedings; and, so far as these bonds are concerned, they could only be reached by judgment creditors.””
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.