Olen (Allen) Lee v. Nathan Habib, Olen Lee v. Nathan Habib’s Empirical Analysis
424 F.2d 891 · 1970
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 7 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2015 · most notably Ethel Javins v. First National Realty Corporation, Rudolph Saunders v. First National Realty Corporation, Stanley Gross v. First National Realty Corporation (1970), United States v. Blackwell (1982)
39 federal appellate · 7 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Anders v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Gault · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the law appears to be settled, but where the appellant is able to show that his chances of changing the law on appeal are strong.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shuler v. Russell · Terry v. Searcy“[t]here can never be effective appellate review if the reviewing court is not able to obtain a clear picture of the precise nature of the alleged errors in the court below”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[d]oubts about the substantiality of the questions on appeal and the need for a transcript to explore them should be resolved in favor of the petitioner.”
2 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.