Otey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably State v. Joubert (1994), Slack Nursing Home, Inc. v. Department of Social Services (1995)
2 federal appellate · 43 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 Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson · Connecticut Board of Pardons v. Dumschat · Parker v. Corrothers · State v. NEB. ASS'N OF PUBLIC EMP.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The powers of the government of this state are divided into three distinct departments, the legislative, executive and judicial, and no person or collection of persons being one of these departments, shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except as hereinafter expressly directed or permitted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Governor, Attorney General and Secretary of State, sitting as a board, shall have power to remit fines and forfeitures and to grant respites, reprieves, pardons, or commutations in all cases of conviction for offenses against the laws of the state, except treason and cases of impeachment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Otey v. Hopkins“In a May 24, 1991, letter to Governor Nelson, Otey's attorney, Victor Covalt, stated in part, 'I would be happy to meet with you or any of your staff at any time to discuss Mr. Otey or the Pardons Board procedure in this unusual case.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Otey v. Hopkins
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.