Clark v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2008 · most notably O'QUINN v. Walt Disney Productions, Inc. (1972), In Re Marriage of Skillen (1998)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 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 Northern Pacific Railway Company v. Mary a Meese · Peet v. Mills · Shea v. North-Butte Mining Co. · Dosen v. East Butte Copper Mining Co. · Moffett v. Bozeman Canning Co.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the construction of a statute the office of the judge is simply to ascertain and declare what is in terms or in substance contained therein, not to insert what has been omitted, or to omit what has been inserted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not to enact, but to expound, the law . . . .”
1 later decision 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.