Boeing v. Owsley’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1988 · most notably Von Baumbach v. Sargent Land Co. (1917), State v. DeZeler (1950)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 31 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 Washburn v. Van Steenwyk · State v. Evans · Renlund v. Commodore Mining Co. · Koen v. Bartlett · Estate of Kirkendall
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It confers no substantive right, but merely provides for a statutory estoppel to set at rest, after the expiration of the prescribed period, all question as to whether the survivor has elected to take under the will and not under the statute, the failure to elect within such time being ‘equivalent to an assent to the disposition of the property as fixed by the will.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.