Busko v. DeFilippo’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably Catz v. Rubenstein (1986), State v. Moynahan (1973)
78 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 Mahoney v. Beatman · Nolan v. Morelli · Hartley v. Vitiello · Miranti v. Brookside Shopping Center, Inc. · Levett v. Etkind
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It becomes a conclusion of law only when the mind of a fair and reasonable [juror] could reach only one conclusion; if there is room for a reasonable disagreement, the question is one to be determined by the trier as a matter of fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“was the proximate cause of the collision as a matter of law”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a substantial factor in causing the plaintiff's damages”
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.