Osborn v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 1991 · most notably Evansville Ice & Cold Storage Co. v. Winsor (1897), Gilson v. Board of Commissioners (1891)
35 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 Platter v. Board of Commissioners · Shular v. State · Stoddard v. Johnson · Green v. Elliott · Baltimore & Ohio & Chicago Railroad v. North
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The assumption of authority is an assertion of jurisdiction without any formal statement of the facts essential to give jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Graff v. Louis
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.