Ogden v. Raymond’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 1990 · most notably A. Dubreuil & Sons, Inc. v. Town of Lisbon (1990), Hassett v. Carroll (1911)
27 state decisions — followed in 17 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.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are aware that it is not unfrequently laid down as a rule of law that if the agent does not bind his principal he binds himself; but this rule needs qualification and can not be said to be universally true or correct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leroy v. Jacobosky.
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.