Bentz v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2011
16 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 Garcia v. Genuine Parts Co. · Myers v. Olson · Slide-A-Ride of Las Cruces, Inc. v. Citizens Bank · Searle Bros. v. Searle · First State Bank v. Muzio
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person in privity with another is a person so identified in interest with another that he represents the same legal right.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Failure to plead a compulsory counterclaim bars a later action on that claim[.]”
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.