Olguin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Rivera v. American General Financial Services, Inc. (2011), Lovelace Medical Center v. Mendez Ex Rel. Mendez (1991)
64 state decisions
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 Jaritas Live Stock Co. v. Spriggs · Vigil v. State · State v. Garlick
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his court has consistently followed a policy of construing rules liberally, `to the end that causes on appeal may be determined on the merits where it can be done without impeding or confusing administration or perpetrating injustice.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Maples v. State · State v. Manes“is provided for in the Constitution while the means for exercising that right are properly controlled by rules of procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Griffin
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.