Olivieri v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
766 F.2d 690 · 1985
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Elrod v. Burns · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the excuses offered for refusing to permit the fullest scope of free speech are often disguised, a court must carefully sort through the reasons offered to see if they are genuine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Olivieri v. Ward
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.