Ogle v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1986
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 Williamson v. Ackerman · Riney v. Doll · Fritchen v. Mueller · Smith v. Bank of Hamlin · Graves v. O'Brien
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * and duress is still often defined as that degree of constraint or danger, either actually inflicted or threatened and impending, which is sufficient in severity or in apprehension to overcome the mind and will of a person of ordinary firmness”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * this court repudiated the proposition that ordinary firmness of mind should be included in the standard by which to test the existence of duress * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.