Olson v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 federal appellate ·

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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he Federal Rules of Civil Procedure allow parties to oppose summary judgment with materials that would be inadmissible at trial so long as facts therein could later be presented in an admissible form.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. G&S Metal Consultants, Inc. v. Continental Casualty Co. · 319 F. Supp. 3d 1004 - Rivera v. Guevara

2. “District courts are thus placed in the unenviable position of identifying, among a sea of people lacking counsel, those who need counsel the most.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. James v. Eli · McCaa v. Hamilton

3. “deciding whether to recruit counsel 'is a difficult decision: Almost everyone would benefit from having a lawyer, but there are too many indigent litigants and too few lawyers willing and able to volunteer for these cases.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. James v. Eli