Morrison v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
926 federal appellate · 90 district · 319 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,972 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Penson v. Ohio (1988), Will v. Michigan Department of State Police (1989)
926 federal appellate · 90 district · 319 state decisions — followed in 38 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
Cited together with Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Martin Exploration Management Co. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Strickland v. Washington
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.