Bienash v. Moller’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably In the Matter of Estate of Duebendorfer (2006), Wyman v. Bruckner (2018)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 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 Fender v. Fender · Ward v. Lange · In Re the Estate of Stevenson · High Plains Genetics Research, Inc. v. J K Mill-Iron Ranch · Crosby v. Luehrs
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there must be not only confidence of the one in the other, but there must exist a certain inequality, dependence, weakness of age, mental strength, business intelligence, knowledge of the facts involved, or other conditions giving to one advantage over the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wyman v. Bruckner“Summary judgment is appropriate where 'the pleadings, depositions, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the law will imply such duties only where one party to a relationship is unable to fully protect its interests and the unprotected party has placed its trust and confidence in the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wyman v. Bruckner
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.