Ivy v. Osborne’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 1987 · most notably William C. Cameron v. John C. Brock (1973), Jenkins v. Loudon County (1987)
7 federal appellate · 37 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Tennessee courts follow the rule last stated, upon the reasoning that the deputy acts in lieu of the sheriff and in his name, and representing the sheriff officially, and not as an agent, the authority of the deputy is limited to official acts.” [Italics supplied.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Waters v. Bates“a private bond, payable to the sheriff, and for his protection against liability for the official misconduct of the deputy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.