Ostler v. Buhler’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Brown v. Glover (2000), T.H. v. R.C. (2006)
35 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 Martindell v. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. · Crookston v. Fire Insurance Exchange · Smith v. National Provisioner Inc. · State v. Bakalov · Board of Education of the Granite School District v. Salt Lake County
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The proper interpretation of a rule of procedure is a question of law, and we review the trial court's decision for correctness.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“non-parties must adhere to the procedural requirements of Rule 24(c) in order to intervene in an action”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'in favor of a person who is not a party to the action or proceeding is void because the court has no jurisdiction to make it.'”
3 later decisions 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.