O'Brien v. . Young’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2010 · most notably Morley v. Lake Shore M S Ry Co (1892), Chase v. Curtis (1885)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 77 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Relationships
Relies on Dash v. Van Kleeck · Holden v. Trust Co. · Burnhisel v. Firman · McCoun v. . N.Y.C. and H.R.R.R. Co. · Rae v. Hulbert
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is claimed that the provision in section 1 of the act of 1819, wdiich reduced the rate of interest (chap. 538), saves this judgment from the operation of that act. The provision is that ‘nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to in any way affect any contract or obligation made before the passage of this act.’ The answer to this claim is.that here there was no contract to pay interest at any given rate. The implied contract, as I have shown, was to pay such interest as the law prescribed, and that contract is not affected or interfered with.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Palmer v. Laberee
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.