Gracia v. Bittner’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Diversey Corp. v. Chem-Source Corp. (1998), Azar v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America (2003)
2 federal appellate · 92 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 State v. Ortega · Garcia on Behalf of Garcia v. La Farge · Zurla v. State · Jewell v. Seidenberg · Saiz Ex Rel. Estate of Saiz v. Belen School District
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantial justice was not done, the court was deprived of jurisdiction to hear the ease, the issue was one of general public interest that would impact a large number of litigants, or, there was a “total absence of anything in the record of the ease showing a right to relief[.]””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he preservation requirement should be applied with its purposes in mind, and not in an unduly technical manner to avoid reaching issues....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When a statute does not grant a right to relief in a particular situation, it is fundamental error to grant relief based on the statute.”
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.