Olson v. Rothwell’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 39 Wis. 2d 653 - Robertson Transportation Co. v. Public Service Commission (1968), Santa Fe Exploration Co. v. Oil Conservation Commission (1992)
55 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 Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad v. Public Service Commission
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * an unconsidered, wilful and irrational choice of conduct and not the result of the `winnowing and sifting' process.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . The contention of the appellants can only have merit on the proposition that if a school-reorganization order affects part of the territory comprising a school district, such order pre-empts all the territory in the school district. There is no authority for such a proposition. All the authority is to the contrary. Sec. 40.025 (1) (c) provides only the second school reorganization proceeding is void if it pertains to all or any part of the territory included in the order of the first proceeding which is then pending or whose order has not then become effective. “The pre-empted jurisdiction of the first proceeding extends no farther than the particular and identical land or territory involved. . . .” Olson v. Rothwell, supra, p. 237.”
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.