Otis v. Dargan’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
1 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1921
1 district · 21 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.
Relationships
Relies on Blakey's Heirs v. Blakey's · Deslonde & James v. Darrington's Heirs · Duckworth v. Duckworth's Adm'r · Samuel Sample Israel Pickins and Burwell Scott v. Shadrach Barnes · Allman v. Owen
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Having thus the actual knowledge of the settlement, which is so prominently insisted on in some of the authorities to which we have been referred, what excuse can be preferred for their failure to inquire into it, and avail themselves of the facts they now press to avoid it? The executor .had resigned, the administration was not complete, for a successor to him had been appointed, and he was seeking a final settlement which was to be a final discharge of his liability. ■These facts certainly were sufficient, if they had ordinary care for their interest to put them on inquiry.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Evans v. Evans
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.