Orvis v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
98 U.S. 176 · 1878
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1925 · most notably Willard v. Wood (1896), Selover, Bates & Co. v. Walsh (1912)
8 federal appellate · 8 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 Brine v. Insurance Co. · Iglehart v. Wesson
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A right to redeem after sale does not exist unless given by the statute. * * ⅜ We are not aware of any such right existing at common law, or in the system of equity as administered in the courts of England, previous to the organization of our government. * ⅜ s This right, when thus given [by state statute], is a substantial one, recognized even in the courts of the United States sitting in equity, because the statute constitutes a rule of property in the state that enacts it.””
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.