Olstad v. Olstad’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2003
6 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 Lund Ex Rel. Lund v. Knoff · Breen v. Keen
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ordinarily, a summary judgment will not be granted in negligence cases where the standard of the reasonable man must be applied to conflicting testimony. But where it conclusively appears that the plaintiff is barred by law from recovering, and that a judgment for him could not be permitted to stand, a summary judgment may properly be granted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Titus v. Titus““A servant assumes all of the ordinary risks and dangers of his employment which are known to him or discoverable by the exercise of ordinary care on his part.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Haga v. Cook
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.