Neal v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
95 U.S. 704 · 1877
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 38 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 555 later decisions (41 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Davis v. Aetna Acceptance Co. (1934), Babbitt v. Sweet Home Chapter, Communities for Great Ore. (1995)
62 federal appellate · 38 district · 61 state decisions — followed in 23 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 Chapman v. Forsyth
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 555 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the coupling of words together shows that they are to be understood in the same sense”
43 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hennequin v. Clews · Wolf v. Stix“positive fraud, or fraud in fact, involving moral turpitude or intentional wrong.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“no debt created by fraud or embezzlement of the bankrupt, or by his defalcation as a public officer, or while acting in any fiduciary character, shall be discharged, &c.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hennequin v. Clews
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.