Olson v. Waitman’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
August 1997
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Grant v. Matson
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Regardless of how negligent the plaintiff may have been in getting into this predicament, she did not thereby give the defendant license to thereafter injure her with impunity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. Summers
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.