Olympia Hotels Corp. v. Johnson Wax Development Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
908 F.2d 1363 · 1990
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 5 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. American Family Mutual Insurance Company, Market Street Associates Limited Partnership v. Frey (1991)
67 federal appellate · 5 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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. § 636
Relies on Tumey v. State of Ohio · Rose v. Clark · McDonough Power Equipment, Inc. v. Greenwood · Vasquez v. Hillery · Curtiss-Wright Corporation v. General Electric Company
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]ssues of entitlement to a particular kind of tribunal are in general not subject to the harmless error rule.... For example, .... [i]t is reversible error to deny a party to a jury trial the peremptory challenges to which the rules of procedure entitle him.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moran v. Clarke · State v. Vreen“would [not] be much point to the elaborate provisions in section 636(c) for the conduct of civil trials (including jury trials) by a magistrate with the consent of both parties if a district judge could compel the parties, against their wishes, to submit to a magistrate's conducting vital stages in the trial, such as voir dire of the jury”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It has seemed to us implicit in the rule that the retained and the appealed claims must be factually distinct, for otherwise the court of appeals may be forced to analyze the same facts in successive appeals, a form of piecemeal appealing not authorized by the rule.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.