Ozan Lumber Company v. Union County National Bank of Liberty Indiana’s Empirical Analysis
207 U.S. 251 · 1907
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 16 district · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 181 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2003 · most notably Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. (1911), McDonald v. Board of Election Comm'rs of Chicago (1969)
19 federal appellate · 16 district · 85 state decisions — followed in 27 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedOzan Lumber Co. v. Union County Nat. Bank of Liberty (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Munn v. Illinois · Civil Rights Cases · Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis · Aaron Cooley v. The Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia to the Use of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Pilots Their Widows and Children Same
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 181 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a classification for governmental purposes there cannot be an exact exclusion or inclusion of persons and things.” Magoun v. Illinois Bank, 170 U. S. 283 , 296, 18 Sup. Ct. 594 , 599, 42 L. Ed. 1037 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Section 1.... No state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The manufacturer of a patented article, who also sells it in the usual course of business in his store or factory, would probably come within the exception of section 4 (section 516, Id.). He may be none the less a dealer, selling in the usual course of his business, because he is also a manufacturer of the article dealt in.””
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.