Olson v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2007
8 federal appellate · 15 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 McDonald v. Pless · Olson v. Milwaukee Automobile Insurance · Koss v. A. Geo. Schulz Co. · Dishmaker v. Heck · Webster v. Krembs
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the statements of the jurors will not be received to . . . impeach their verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A guest does not assume the risk of a host-driver’s sudden or momentary failure to exercise due care. . . . However, if the negligent act of the host-driver which causes injury is a continuance or repetition of similar negligence on his part, for which there had been occasion or opportunity to render protest, the guest-passenger, in failing to protest assumes the risk.” Olson v. Williams (1955), 270 Wis. 57, 66 , 70 N. W. (2d) 10 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peterson v. Magnus
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.