Boyd v. Olvey’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 1983 · most notably Burton v. Perry (1893), United States Health & Accident Insurance v. Clark (1908)
1 federal appellate · 27 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 President Directors Company of the Bank of the United States v. President Directors Company of the Bank of the State of Georgia · Bayless v. Glenn · Teal v. Spangler · Dewey v. . Moyer · Thomas Griffin v. Robert Thompson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To a certain extent the clerk must be recognized as the agent of the purchaser. His powers are by no means so unlimited as to authorize him to receive anything else than money or its equivalent for the redemption. But when, without fraud on the part of the debtor, he receives such equivalent, and the debtor in good faith takes his acquittance, whatever may be his ultimate liability to the clerk, the creditor or purchaser cannot be heard to repudiate the act of the officer to the extent of defeating the redemption.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It may be laid down as a general rule that, where an estate Is devised to trustees for particular purposes, the legal estate is vested in them as long as the execution of the .trust requires it, and no longer, and therefore, as soon as the trusts are satisfied, it will vest in the person beneficially entitled to it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Savage v. Savage
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.