O'Leary v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 1988
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Simmons v. F. W. Dodge Corporation · Barbour v. State Department of Pensions & Security · O'Leary v. State
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the trial judge sits as a finder of fact and hears and observes witnesses as they speak, his judgment is presumed correct and will not be *Page 1325 reversed if it is supported by legal evidence and is not clearly wrong and unjust.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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