Osborn v. Warner’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2025
2 district · 14 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1338
Relies on Cooley v. Shepherd · Schepps v. Howe · Hyatt v. Big Horn School District No. 4 · Cole v. Coons · Hackett v. Linch
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]ere possession and use of the entire property by one cotenant is not an ouster, nor is his possession adverse, so long as the other cotenants remain voluntarily out of possession, and are not kept out of possession by the acts of the possessor-tenant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Tenancy in common is characterized by possession or the right to possession of the common property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The public policy which is the basis for enactment of homestead laws is that the preservation of the home is of a greater social importance than payment of the debts of creditors.”
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.