Overhiser v. Overhiser’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 1945
14 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Schaefer · Tyler v. Odd Fellows' Mutual Relief Ass'n · Shea v. Massachusetts Benefit Ass'n · Keener v. Grand Lodge · Rindge v. New England Mutual Aid Society
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ It will be seen at a glance that there is a wide distinction between a requirement that a certificate shall issue to only one of a certain class of persons, and.one that payment can be made to only one of a certain class.””
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.