Powers v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably In re Jonathan M. (2001), Giulietti v. Giulietti (2001)
83 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 Kimberly-Clark Corp. v. Dubno · Nor'easter Group, Inc. v. Colossale Concrete, Inc. · Newbury Commons Ltd. Partnership v. City of Stamford · Alemany v. Commissioner of Transportation · Torres v. City of Waterbury
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established that in a case tried before a court, the trial judge is the sole arbiter of the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be given specific testimony.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he trial court is privileged to adopt whatever testimony [it] reasonably believes to be credible.”
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.