Becenti v. Becenti’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Gates v. State, Taxation & Revenue Department (2007), State v. Hunter (2005)
32 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 Gonzales v. Surgidev Corp. · American Cyanamid Co. v. McGhee · Meiboom v. Watson · Electronics, Inc. v. Nartron Corp. · Wilson v. City of San Jose
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an action may be dismissed by the plaintiff without order of the court ... by filing a notice of dismissal at any time before service by the adverse party of an answer or other responsive pleading.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]hen called upon to apply and interpret rules of civil procedure, we review these questions de novo.”
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.