Pink v. Busch’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably United Fire Insurance v. McClelland (1989), Dayside Inc. v. First Judicial District Court Ex Rel. Carson City (2003)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 Cheqer, Inc. v. Painters & Decorators Joint Committee, Inc. · Zuni Construction Co. v. Great American Insurance · Berge v. Fredericks · New England Merchants National Bank v. Rosenfield · Nyberg v. Kirby
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the party to be estopped must be apprised of the true facts; (2) he must intend that his conduct shall be acted upon, or must so act that the party asserting estoppel has the right to believe it was so intended; (3) the party asserting the estoppel must be ignorant of the true state of facts; (4) he must have relied to his detriment on the conduct of the party to be estopped.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no evidence in support of [them].”
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.