Olson v. Starkey’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably 105 Wash. 2d 457 - Dickinson v. Edwards (1986), Hansen v. Continental Can Company (1974)
28 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 State Ex Rel. Ging v. Board of Education · Reger v. Administrator, Unemployment Compensation Act · Swanson v. Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. · Juster Bros. Inc. v. Christgau · Chellson v. State Division of Employment & Security
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An individual shall be eligible to receive benefits with respect to any week of unemployment only if the commissioner finds that: * * * * * “(3) He was able to work and was available for work, and was actively seeking work, provided that individual’s weekly benefit amount shall be reduced one-fifth for each day such individual is unable to work or unavailable for work; provided further that benefits after December 31, 1971, shall not be denied by application of this clause to an individual who is in training with the approval of the commissioner.””
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.