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Owen v. Corporation’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

71
cited by 71 later decisions
10
states following
November 2023
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 5 district · 27 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably State v. Reynolds (1990), State v. Pinero (1989)

4 federal appellate · 5 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 10 states

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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 The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Tisdale v. United States · United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Gibbons v. United States · Shelton v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company

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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[q]uestions which simply allow the witness to tell the jury what result to reach are impermissible, as are questions asking the witness for a legal conclusion.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Did the the testator have sufficient mental capacity to know the nature and extent of his property and the natural objects of his bounty and to formulate a rational scheme of distribution?”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “testimony in the form of an opinion or inference otherwise admissible is not objectionable because it embraces an ultimate issue to be decided by the trier of fact.”
    3 later decisions 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.