Chase v. Ingalls’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1958 · most notably Miller v. Horton (1891), Hendrick v. Whittemore (1870)
1 district · 23 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 Pearce v. Atwood · Sandford v. Nichols
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘‘ The allowance of alimony, or the award to the wife of her own or a part of the husband’s estate upon granting a divorce, is not a debt nor damages, in the sense of the statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberts v. Fuller
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.