Olin Corp. v. Castells’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
8 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Blake v. Blake (1989), In re Samantha C. (2004)
8 district · 73 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 Baxter v. Palmigiano · Lefkowitz v. Turley · Murphy v. Dantowitz
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fifth amendment privilege against self-incrimination . . . privileges [the individual] not to answer official questions put to him in any . . . proceeding, civil or criminal, formal or informal, where the answers might incriminate him in future criminal proceedings.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he privilege does not . . . forbid the drawing of adverse inferences against parties to civil actions when they refuse to testify in response to probative evidence offered against them.”
5 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.