Osborn v. Cline’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Malone v. Santora (1949), Lewis v. Ebersole (1943)
50 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 Van Blaricom v. . Dodgson · Thompson v. Mobile Light & R. · Bowen v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad · Lord v. Oklahoma State Fair Ass'n · Wamser v. . Browning, King Co.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a person simply hires a place to put his car or whether he has turned its possession over to the care and custody of another depends on the place, the conditions, and the nature of the transaction.” The gravamen is one of choice.”
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.