Olgin v. Darnell’s Empirical Analysis
664 F.2d 107 · 1981
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably Reginald R. Brinkmann, Jr. v. Dallas County Deputy Sheriff Abner (1987), Ruiz v. Estelle (1982)
19 federal appellate · 1 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 Bell v. Wolfish · Csaky v. Hornblower & Weeks-Hemphill, Noyes, Inc. · Jones v. Diamond · Western Beef, Inc. v. Compton Investment Co. · Mayberry v. Davis
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court of appeals has neither permission nor prerogative to reappraise the credibility of witnesses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ruiz v. Estelle · Johnston v. Lucas
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.