Gushurst v. Benham’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 1980
2 federal appellate · 8 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 Lasnetske v. Parres · Butler v. Phillips · Stahl v. Cooper · Norris v. Bradshaw · Stahl v. Cooper
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In that case we declared that in order for a statement of this type to be a part of the res gestae it had to be in the nature of an exclamation, and not in a narrative form, spontaneous and instinctive rather than deliberate."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alcorn v. Erasmus“spontaneous or instinctive exclamation uttered at least somewhat contemporaneously with the event concerning which the statement was made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alcorn v. Erasmus
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.