Oden v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1975
9 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The word ‘due’ has a double meaning: (1) That the debt or obligation to which it applies has by contract or operation of law become immediately payable; (2) an existing indebtedness without reference to the time of payment, in which it is synonymous with ‘owing,’ and includes all debts, whether payable in praesenti or in futuro.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The word is used on different occasions to express distinct ideas. Its meaning must necessarily depend upon the context and evident purpose intended. United States v. State Bank of North Carolina, 31 U.S. (6 Pet.) 29 , 8 L.Ed. 308 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Davis
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.