Bruner v. Sobel’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2022
12 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 Ledbetter v. Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission · Fuller v. Odom · Special Indemnity Fund v. Archer · Irwin v. Irwin · English v. T. H. Rogers Lumber Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the Legislature has clearly expressed its intent, the use of additional rules of construction are unnecessary and a statute will be applied as written.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“ascertain and follow the intent of the Legislature.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If any action is commenced within due time, and a judgment thereon for the plaintiff is reversed, of if the plaintiff fail in such action otherwise than on the merits, the plaintiff, or, if he should die, and the cause of action survive, his representatives may commence a new action within one (1) year after the reversal or failure although the time limit for commencing the action shall have expired before the new action is filed.”
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.