Olsen v. States Line’s Empirical Analysis
378 F.2d 217 · 1967
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2014
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Rogers v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Ferguson v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. · Jesionowski v. Boston & Maine Railroad · Page v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. · DeLima v. Trinidad Corp.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the event is of a type which ordinarily does not happen in the absence of someone's negligence; (2) the instrumentality causing the injury was, at the time of the accident, within the exclusive control of the defendant; (3) the accident was not due to any voluntary action or contribution on the part of the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that cause which in a direct, unbroken sequence produces the injury complained of and without which such injury would not have happened.”
1 later decision 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.