Owen v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Indianapolis Street Railway Co. v. Marschke (1906), Muehlman v. Keilman (1971)
50 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 Adams v. Michael · Gilbert v. Showerman · City of Crawfordsville v. Brundage · Green v. Lake · Rout v. Woods
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The owner of property is entitled to enjoy the ordinary comforts of life, and that right is not to be measured by the notions of the people of a particular locality.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A lawful and useful business is not to be destroyed by injunction unless the necessity for doing so be strong, clear and urgent.” (our emphasis) 73 Ind. at 290-291 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Muehlman v. Keilman
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.