Bitonti v. Tucker’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2000 · most notably Conservation Commission v. Price (1984), Hartford National Bank & Trust Co. v. Tucker (1979)
34 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 Banca Commerciale Italiana Trust Co. v. Westchester Artistic Works, Inc. · Higgins v. Hartford County Bar Asso.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`established policy to allow great latitude to a litigant who, either by choice or necessity, represents himself in legal proceedings, so far as such latitude is consistent with the just right of any adverse party.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.