Olympia v. Sherman’s Empirical Analysis
52 F. 985 · 1891
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1926
1 federal appellate · 4 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 Losee v. . Buchanan · Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad v. Huntley · Morris v. Platt · The Mabey and Cooper · Brown v. Marshall
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ISvery practical precaution seems to have; been taken to forefend this casualty. Its occurrence may with equal reason bo referred to a sudden and extraordinary strain, which is the theory of masters of experience, or to a latent undiscovered defect in the rope, or the co-operation of both these causes. Whether occasioned by either or both, it was inevitable.””
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.