Owens v. Ranstead’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably 6 Ill. 2d 245 - Janove v. Bacon (1955), Zimek v. Illinois National Casualty Co. (1939)
74 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Starbuck v. Murray · Aldrich v. Kinney
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rules of court regulating its practice, and affecting all the suitors in it, and their most important interests, ought, like the acts of the General Assembly, to have a reasonable publicity given to them before they shall become obligatory, at least, by being entered upon the record, and should operate prospectively only. A rule locked up in the judge's breast, and only promulgated orally, as the business of the court progresses, has none of the constituents of a rule. It was not a written ruleit was not entered of recordit had no publicity, and was known only to some of the lawyers practicing in that court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] rule of court cannot rest in parol or in the breast of the judgeit must appear of record.”
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.