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← 176 FRD 325 - O'Sullivan v. State

O'Sullivan v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
April 2016
most recently cited

6 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2016

6 district · 1 state decisions

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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

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Schlagenhauf v. Holder · Tomlin v. Holecek · Turner v. Imperial Stores · Cody v. Marriott Corp. · Peters v. Nelson

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “are typically granted when one or more of the following factors are present: 1. a cause of action for intentional or negligent infliction of emotional distress; 2. an allegation of a specific mental or psychiatric injury or disorder; 3. a claim of unusually severe emotional distress; 4. the plaintiffs offer of expert testimony to support a claim of emotional distress; and/or 5. the plaintiffs concession that her mental condition is ‘in controversy within the meaning of Rule 35.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “good cause” requirements of Rule 35, were not satisfied”
    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.