O'BRIEN v. Snow’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Wright v. Castles (1986), Lee v. Southland Corp. (1978)
9 federal appellate · 25 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 Zedd v. Jenkins · Owens v. Redd · Marshall v. Dean · Boggs v. Virginia State Board of Dental Examiners
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This new statute, which became effective ... after this action was filed but before the entry of the judgment complained of, produced a change in the summary judgment procedure and was, therefore, applicable to the decision of this motion.”
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.