O'Shea v. Opp’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1970
12 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 Maher v. People · State v. Partlow · State v. Gilmore · Gray v. McDonald · Bond v. Williams
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In action for assault defendant’s instruction that if jury found that plaintiff struck first blow, defendant had right to use all force that appeared reasonably necessary to protect himself, unless jury believed that defendant brought on difficulty for purpose of doing plaintiff ‘great’ bodily injury was erroneous for inclusion of word ‘great’.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boston v. Muncy
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.