Olson v. Pedersen’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 1997 · most notably Hutchison v. Sunbeam Coal Corp. (1986), Lange Industries, Inc. v. Hallam Grain Co. (1993)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 30 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 W. B. Moses & Sons v. Lockwood · Chesnut v. Master Laboratories · James v. Hogan · Home Creek Smokeless Coal Company v. Combs · George v. Jones
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]n the absence of a statute to the contrary a tenancy cannot be terminated for the breach of a covenant, condition, or collateral agreement by the lessee unless there is an express and distinct provision in the lease for a forfeiture or right of reentry on the occurrence of the breach. . . .” Olson v. Pedersen, 194 Neb. 159, 165 , 231 N.W.2d 310, 314 (1975).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“so material and substantial as to defeat the objects of the parties in making the contract,”
2 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.