Chesebro v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
December 1889
most recently cited
1 state decisions
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All of the circumstances favor complainant’s claim, and substantiate his case. We are satisfied that he has been in possession, under the foreclosure deed, more than 20 years before defendants undertook to meddle with the land, and that their action was malicious, and upon no foundation of right whatever.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chesebro v. Powers
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.