Osborn v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 1992
17 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 State ex rel. Wilkinson v. Lane · Brandon v. Askew · State ex rel. Winter v. Sayre · Sheboygan Co. v. Parker · State ex rel. Attorney-General v. Burns
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The principle of uniformity, throughout the several counties of the state, as to the compensation of public officers in the way of costs, charges of courts, fees, commissions, and allowances, is declared also by section 96 of the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“general legislation intended to establish a uniform system . . . has no application here, in view of the Jefferson county amendment”
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.