Palmer v. Oakley’s Empirical Analysis
1847
Citation profile
1 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1938 · most notably Shively v. Bowlby (1894), Nathaniel Waring v. Thomas Clarke (1847)
1 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Grignon's Lessee v. Astor · Jackson ex dem. Jenkins v. Robinson · Dubois v. Dubois · Adkins v. Brewer · Jackson ex dem. M'Fail v. Crawfords
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It is very clear that the words of the act do not make it imperative upon the guardian to execute the bond, and it is equally clear that the end to be attained does not render such a construction necessary, When the guardian gives a bond with sufficient security, the object of the law is fully answered. If the fifth section stood alone, the construction contended for by the plaintiffs might prevail, as the words ‘shall give a bond’ might reasonably be construed to be equivalent to the words ‘shall execute a bond.’ I am unable to perceive the necessity for the execution of the bond by the guardian, as no additional security is thereby afforded to the minor in the event of a breach of its conditions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Olmstead v. Taylor
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.