Eggers v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1960
1 federal appellate · 15 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 Inhabitants of Westfield v. Mayo · In Re the Estate of Gregorson · Cunningham v. . Cunningham · In Re Love's Estate · Lawrence v. Hagerman
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The marriage of any person of African descent, as defined by the Constitution of this state, to any person not of African descent, or the marriage of any person not of African descent to any person of African descent shall be unlawful and is hereby prohibited within this state.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Atkins v. Rust““A prohibited marriage under state law may be inquired into in any proceeding in which the fact of marriage may be material.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Busch v. Busch
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.