Befumo v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 2022
4 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 Goglio v. Star Valley Ranch Ass'n · Beeman v. Beeman · Dolence v. State · Williams Production RMT Company v. STATE OF WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE · Millheiser v. Wallace
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Grounds.-A new trial may be granted to all or any of the parties, and on all or part of the issues. On a motion for a new trial in an action tried without a jury, the court may open the judgment, if one has been entered, take additional testimony, amend findings of fact and conclusions of law or make new findings and conclusions, and direct the entry of a new judgment. Subject to the provisions of Rule 61, a new trial may be granted for any of the following causes: (1) Irregularity in the proceedings of the court ... or prevailing party, or any order of the court ..., or abuse of disceretion, by which the party was prevented from having a fair trial; 4”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hutchinson v. Taft
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.