Cleveland v. Chamberlain’s Empirical Analysis
66 U.S. 419 · 1861
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 10 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2011 · most notably Honig v. Doe (1988), Poe v. Ullman (1961)
21 federal appellate · 10 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Lord v. Veazie
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This appeal must be dismissed. Selah Chamberlain is, in fact, both appellant and appellee. By the intervention of a friend he has purchased the debt demanded by Cleveland in his bill, and now carries on a pretended controversy by counsel, chosen and paid by himself, and on a record selected by them, for the evident purpose of obtaining a decision injurious to the rights and interests of third parties. “There is no material difference between this case and that of Lord v. Veazie, (8 How. [251] 254 [ 12 L.Ed. 1067 ]), when the whole proceeding was justly rebuked by the court as ‘in contempt of the court, and highly reprehensible/ That case originated in a collusion between the parties. In this case the appellee, who was a judgment-creditor of the La Crosse and Milwaukee railroad, filed his bill to set aside a fraudulent conveyance of the debtors’ property made to the appellant, and other fraudulent conveyances of their lands made to certain directors of the company, who were also made parties respondent. The case was prosecuted with vigor by the complainant till a decree was obtained, (on the 11th of February, 1859) setting aside the various assignments, and the case ‘committed to a master to ascertain and report the annual income of the several lots described in the bill,’ &c. This was not a final decree. Nevertheless, an appeal was permitted to be entered by Chamberlain on 12th of February, 1859. But the record was not brought up to this court for a year and a half, nor so l”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.