Olson v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 1980 · most notably United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. First State Bank (1972), Farmers Insurance v. Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance (1980)
4 federal appellate · 21 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 Bicocchi v. Casey-Swasey Co. · Johnson v. Barrett · Blodgett v. Hitt · Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Thomas · Adoue v. Spencer
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is merely necessary that his payment should have been made in good faith for the protection of an interest which he believed himself to have in the estate, and in discharge of a burden actually resting upon the property, so that his payment has increased the value of the estate for the benefit of those who turn out subsequently to be entitled to the title.” (p. 362.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Breyfogle v. Jackson
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.