Chase v. Lathrop’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1990
12 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 Hope v. Jones · Griswold v. Smith · Doss v. Stevens · Kelley's Estate · Bellamy v. HawKins
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What allowance was reasonable under all circumstances of the case rested in the sound discretion of the court, and as all presumptions are in favor of the judgment, it will not be disturbed unless an abuse of discretion is clearly disclosed by the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cheney v. Corbett
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.