Chittenden v. Brewster’s Empirical Analysis
69 U.S. 191 · 1864
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2008 · most notably Greenlaw v. United States (2008), Morley Const Co v. Maryland Casualty Co (1937)
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 The Marine Insurance Company of Alexandria v. Hodgson · Case v. Brown
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the appellees desired to avail themselves of this error in the decree, they should have brought a cross-appeal. By omitting to do so, they admit the correctness of the decree as to them. The case stands before ⅛¾ appellate tribunal the same as if the error had been waived at the hearing.””
1 later decision 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.