Oldham v. Medearis’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 1974 · most notably Sherman v. Sipper (1941), Gulf Production Co. v. Palmer (1921)
57 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the findings of fact should be stated only the facts established 'by the evidence, and not the evidence from which the court finds such facts. A fact stated by the court in such findings must, in the absence of a statement of facts, be presumed to have support in the evidence adduced on the trial, just as would the verdict of a jury in a like case. The presumption of law is in favor of .the correctness of the action of the trial court, and it is incumbent upon the party seeking revision of such finding in the appellate court to bring up the evidence in the mode prescribed by law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Oldham, being ignorant and illiterate, was not negligent in not discovering the said shortage (in the land) sooner,”
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.