Olcott v. Pendleton’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
2 district · 166 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Griffin Hospital v. Commission on Hospitals & Health Care (1985), Doublewal Corp. v. Toffolon (1985)
2 district · 166 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 Ohio Oil Co. v. Conway · McAuslan v. McAuslan · E. M. Loew's Enterprises, Inc. v. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees · Deming v. Bradstreet · Gulf Refining Co. of La. v. Norvell
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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In deciding whether it should be granted or, if granted, whether it should be continued or dissolved, the court is called upon to balance the results which may be caused to one party or the other, and if it appears that to deny or dissolve it may result in great harm to the plaintiff and little to the defendant, the court may well exercise its discretion in favor of granting or continuing it, unless indeed, it is very clear that the plaintiff is without legal right.”
18 later decisions 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.