Olson v. Lesch’s Empirical Analysis
2019
Citation profile
28
cited by 28 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
January 2025
most recently cited
27 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Tenney v. Brandhove · Gravel v. United States · Hutchinson v. Proxmire · Bogan v. Scott-Harris · United States v. Brewster
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hether an act is legislative turns on the nature of the act, rather than on the motive or intent of the official performing it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“sphere of legitimate legislative activity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.