Bentley v. Bolger’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2018
2 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Maher v. Gagne · Marek v. Chesny
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a Rule 68 'offer, once made, is non-negotiable.' " Mot. Dismiss 17 (quoting Nusom v. Comh Woodburn, Inc. , 122 F.3d 830 , 834 (9th Cir. 1997) ); see also Bentley v. Bolger , 110 F.R.D. 108 , 113 (C.D. Ill. 1986) ("An Offer of Judgment is in the nature of an offer to contract for settlement, and the requirement that an acceptance mirror an offer is fundamental to the Law of Contract.”
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.