O'BRIEN v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably O'Brien v. Alexander (1996), 20 F. Supp. 2d 465 - Vasile v. Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. (1998)
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Business Guides, Inc. v. Chromatic Communications Enterprises, Inc. · Cortec Industries, Inc. v. Sum Holding L.P.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact is that at that time it had become absolutely clear that nothing against Mr. O' Brien had been proved. Indeed, nothing had been properly pleaded from the outset.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. O'Brien v. Alexander“defendants were seeking to sabotage plaintiff's relationships with his employer and his ability to earn a living.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. O'Brien v. Alexander“to an office that plaintiff was apparently using at his former attorney's office.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. O'Brien v. Alexander
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.