O'Donnell v. Slack’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably 54 Cal. 3d 868 - Christensen v. Superior Court (1991), Pettigrew v. Pettigrew (1904)
2 federal appellate · 40 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Larson v. Chase · Pierce v. Proprietors of Swan Point Cemetery · Hackett v. Hackett · Ex parte Smith · Wheeler v. Bolton
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exceeded its jurisdiction in attempting to award the custody of the body of the deceased to one not of kin, to the exclusion of the next of kin.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“protected, and for a violation of which [next of kin] are entitled to indemnification.”
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.