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← 1998 MT 279 - Barnett v. Hunsaker

Barnett v. Hunsaker’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
May 2025
most recently cited

2 district · 24 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Olson v. Jude (2003), State v. Bullman (2009)

2 district · 24 state decisions

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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 Steer, Inc. v. Department of Revenue · Interstate Production Credit Ass'n v. Desaye · Carbon County v. Union Reserve Coal Co., Inc. · Daines v. Knight · Columbia Grain International v. Cereck

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A finding of fact is clearly erroneous if it is not supported by substantial evidence, if the district court misapprehended the effect of the evidence, or if, after reviewing the record, this Court is left with a definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “does not need to be expressed in any particular form.”
    1 later decision 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.