State v. Osborne’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2012
1 district · 11 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 White v. Alaska Insurance Guaranty Ass'n · Century Insurance Agency, Inc. v. City Commerce Corp.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It does not seem possible that [the house builder} negotiated a contract to build a house so that he could confer a benefit on his employees any more than he intended to benefit building suppliers in Fairbanks.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Ordinarily, only the promisee's ... motives are relevant.”
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.