Otten v. Schicker’s Empirical Analysis
655 F.2d 142 · 1981
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2017
15 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Dunn v. Blumstein
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may determine that political restrictions of the kind involved in this case serve several valid and important state interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“ensuring impartial execution of the laws”
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.