O'Shaughnessy v. Baxter’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1996
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.
Relationships
Relies on Griswold v. Sedgwick · Underwood v. Robinson · President of Hallowell & Augusta Bank, Inc. v. Howard
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The difficulty in such cases is, to ascertain whether the judgment was or was not, in fact, rendered against the person who is taken in execution, for if it was, although the person was mistaken, yet the officer would be justified.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cutrona v. Sicard
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.