Bustos v. Gilroy’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2010
20 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 Michelson v. Michelson · Laughlin v. Laughlin · Robison v. Katz · Worland v. Worland · Katz v. New Mexico Department of Human Services
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ensure[s] either party an efficient preparation and presentation of his case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Monsanto v. Monsanto
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.