Olson v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 8 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Lambertson v. Cincinnati Corp. (1977), Armstrong v. Mailand (1979)
6 federal appellate · 8 district · 50 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 Springrose v. Willmore · Meistrich v. Casino Arena Attractions, Inc. · Schrader v. Kriesel · Modec v. City of Eveleth · Coenen v. Buckman Building Corporation
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Assumption of risk has two separate and distinct concepts: Primary and secondary assumption of risk. Primary assumption of risk is not so much an affirmative defense as an expression of the idea that the defendant owes a limited duty of care to the plaintiff with respect to the risk incident to their relationship .... Primary assumption of risk is applicable only where parties have voluntarily entered a relationship in which plaintiff assumes well-known, incidental risks. As to those risks, the defendant has no duty to protect the plaintiff and, thus, if the plaintiffs injury arises from an incidental risk, the defendant is not negligent.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“is one that can be successfully avoided.”
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.