Osborne v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1942
13 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 Lansden v. Bone · Jones v. Reese · Trawick v. Davis · Wife v. Dargin · Merriam v. Boston, Clinton & Fitchburg Railroad
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A sale of land by the wife to the husband is certainly a contract between them, and such a contract, when not within the prohibitory provisions of said section of the Code [Section 2349], is one clearly within its authorization, and under it, the wife may now, — as she could not do under the former married woman’s law, — sell and convey her statutory real estate on an adequate, fair consideration, directly to her husband; and construing this and the preceding section [2348] together, as is proper, we must hold, that the inhibition of section 2348 against the sale of the real estate (or against mortgaging it, as a recent amendment of that section also embraces), applies.to sales or mortgages by the wife to a third person, other than her husband. 7 ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Hughes
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.