Owings v. Hull’s Empirical Analysis
34 U.S. 607 · 1835
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 8 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Mills v. Green (1895), Bowen v. Johnston (1939)
42 federal appellate · 8 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Clark's Executors v. Van Riemsdyk · Bell v. Cunningham · Freeland v. Heron, Lenox & Co. · Clark's Executors v. Carrington
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No doctrine is better settled, both upon principle and authority, than this — that the ratification of an act of an agent previously unauthorized, must,, in order to bind the principal, be with a full knowledge of all the material facts. ' If the material facts be either suppressed or unknown, the ratification is treated as invalid, because founded in mistake or fraud.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We are of opinion, that the circuit court was bound to take judicial notice of the laws of Louisiana. The circuit courts of the United States are created by congress, not for the purpose of administering the local law of a single State alone, but to administer the laws of all the States in the Union, in cases to which they respectively apply. - The judicial power conferred on the general government, by the constitution, extends to many cases arising .under the laws of the different States. And this court is called upon, in the exercise of its appellate jurisdiction, constantly to take notice of and administer the jurisprudence of all the States. That jurisprudence is then, in no just sense, a foreign jurisprudence, to be proved, in the courts of the United States, by the ordinary modes of proof by which the laws of a foreign country are to be established; but it is to be judicially taken notice of in the same manner, as the laws of the United States are taken notice of by these courts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wade v. Lynn
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.