Otto v. Protective’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably 5 Cal. 3d 536 - Randone v. Appellate Department (1971), 19 Cal. 3d 802 - Anton v. San Antonio Community Hospital (1977)
1 federal appellate · 71 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.
Relationships
Relies on Robinson v. Yates City Lodge No. 448 · Burt v. Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons · Savannah Cotton Exchange v. State ex rel. Warfield & Wayne
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a regular member ... of the benevolent fund branch of the association, and entitled to its pecuniary benefits”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not in good faith, was not fair, and was contrary to natural justice.”
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.