Olcott v. Bynum’s Empirical Analysis
84 U.S. 44 · 1872
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 6 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1982 · most notably Kuhn v. Fairmont Coal Co. (1910), Brine v. Insurance Co. (1877)
21 federal appellate · 6 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 21 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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was held by the court below that this evidence was incompetent to establish the existence of the lost deed, and that the complainant had therefore failed to show any connection with the property in question. Upon the ground of this objection the bill was dismissed. Whether this ruling was correct is an inquiry which meets us at the threshold of our examination of 1Iio case. It is one lo be determined by the lex loci reí siüe. It is to be considered solely in ¡he light of the statutes and adjudications of Norlh (’aro-lina. This court must hold and administer the law upon the subject as if it were sitting as a local court of that, state.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is to be considered solely in the light of the statutes and adjudications in North Carolina. Tills court must hold and administer the law upon tile-subject as if it were silling as a local court of that state.” Slaughter v. Glenn, 98 U. S. 242 , 25 L. Ed. 122 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.