Owens v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2013
20 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.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the debt of the claimant was an honest one and he bought no more property than was sufficient to pay it, he had a perfect right to make the purchase, notwithstanding the insolvency of Rose [grantor], even if the purpose of Rose was to evade the payment of other debts, and such purpose was known to the claimant [citing authorities].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brinkman v. Rick
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.