Osterhoudt v. . Rigney’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently April 1982 · most notably People Ex Rel. Myers v. . Barnes (1889), 7 E.H. Smith 163 - First National Bank v. . Shuler (1897)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 100 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 Town of Guilford v. . the Supervisors of Chenango County · Doolittle v. . Supervisors of Broome County · People ex rel. Case v. Collins · Lorillard v. . the Town of Monroe · People Ex Rel. Johnson v. Board of Supervisors
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The acts of a board of audit, within its jurisdiction, in the absence of fraud or collusion, are final and conclusive, and cannot be questioned in a collateral proceeding. Whether the claim is a prophr town or county charge, in a case where it is doubtful and rests upon disputed evidence, and what amount shall be allowed when not fixed by statute, are questions which the statute commits to the determination of the board of audit; and. however much it may err in judgment upon the facts, so long as it keeps within its jurisdiction, and acts In good faith, its audit cannot be overhauled, but is final, as well to the taxpayers as to the claimant.””
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.