Englar v. Offutt’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Standard Oil Co. of Ky. v. Hawkins (1896), Union National Bank v. Goetz (1891)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The true owner of a fund traced to the possession of another has a right to have it restored,' not as a debt due and owing, but because it is his property wrongfully withheld from him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rugger v. Hammond
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.