McCartney v. Osburn’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Van Matre v. Sankey (1893), Ingraham v. Ingraham (1897)
68 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Sarah v. Read · Illinois Land & Loan Co. v. Bonner · Tayloe v. Gould · Collier v. Slaughter's Adm'r · Butler v. Butler
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As to real property, the courts went in the opposite direction, rather, even so far as to hold that a legacy charged upon real estate, and payable at a future day, sinks, as to the real estate, by the death of the legatee before the time of payment * # # >>”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.