O'DELL v. Espinoza’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 8 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Hathorn v. Lovorn (1982), Bell v. City of Milwaukee (1984)
22 federal appellate · 8 district · 19 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1257
Relies on Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn · Market St Ry Co v. Railroad Commission of State of California · Espinoza v. O'DELL
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“limited set of situations in which we have found finality as to the federal issue despite the ordering of further proceedings in the lower state courts.'' Ibid. We do not agree. This is not a case in which”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because the Colorado Supreme Court remanded this case for trial, its decision is not final”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“as an effective determination of the litigation.”
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.