Olberding v. Illinois Central Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
163 federal appellate · 89 district · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 606 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2020 · most notably Shaffer v. Heitner (1977), Leroy v. Great Western United Corp. (1979)
163 federal appellate · 89 district · 69 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1391
Relies on Pennoyer v. Neff · Neirbo Co. v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Hess v. Pawloski · Frank Kane v. State of New Jersey
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 606 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) A civil action wherein jurisdiction is founded only on diversity of citizenship may, except as otherwise provided by law, be brought only in the judicial district where all plaintiffs or all defendants reside.””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Dibble v. Cresse · O'BRIEN v. Weber“`The potentialities of damage by a motorist, in a population as mobile as ours' are so widespread `that those whom he injures must have opportunities of redress against him provided only that he is afforded an opportunity to defend himself.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The requirement of venue is specific and unambiguous; it is not one of those vague principles which, in the interest of some overriding policy, is to be given a 'liberal' construction.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.