Colby v. Larson’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2019
5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The judgment of the court directing the clerk to pay the deposited money to the plaintiff was a ‘recovery’ within the meaning of this statute. To ‘recover’ means, among other things, to ‘ “obtain by course of law.” ’ [Citations omitted.] It was through a legal proceeding and the order and judgment of a court that the plaintiff obtained the damages for which he sued.” Colby v. Larson, supra, at 129-80, 299 P. 2d at 1077 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[ ORS 17.055 ] has been a part of the law of this state since 1862.”
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.