Bevins v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Lillicrap v. Martin (1991), Brown v. Whitcomb (1988)
2 district · 38 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 Foman v. Davis · Hurn v. Retirement Fund Trust of Plumbing Heating and Piping Industry of Southerncalifornia · Tracy v. Vinton Motors, Inc. · John v. Fernandez · BATTENKILL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC. v. Haig's, Inc.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen there is no prejudice to the objecting party, and when the proposed amendment is not obviously frivolous nor made as a dilatory maneuver in bad faith, it is an abuse of discretion to deny the motion.”
6 later decisions 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.