Chapman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably State v. Godfrey (1889), Loury v. Standard Oil Co. (1944)
1 federal appellate · 25 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 Commonwealth v. White · People v. Lilley · Tarver v. State · State v. Benedict · Lawson v. State
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A civil action would rest upon the invasion of a person's "right to live in society without being put in fear of personal harm;" and can often be sustained by proof of a negligent act resulting in unintentional injury. [Citations omitted.] An indictment for the same act could be sustained only upon satisfactory proof of criminal intention to do personal harm to another by violence. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“one may obviously be assaulted, although in complete ignorance of the fact, and, therefore, entirely free from alarm”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Olivas v. State
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.