Bultman v. Barber’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2008 · most notably Hanahan v. Simpson (1997), Erickson v. Jones Street Publishers, LLC (2006)
1 federal appellate · 29 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.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In essence, the court must determine whether a verdict for the opposing party 'would be reasonably possible under the facts as liberally construed in his favor.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Potter · Theodore Potter Kevin Potter, and Harry H. Potter Marguerite C. Potter v. Crestwood Golf Club, Incorporated Crestwood Partnership Claude McCain George Spruce McCain John Boyd Walter Bryant Dale Bryant, and C.W. Carter Carter's Pest Control South Carolina National Bank Martin, Thompson and Wilkinson Erwin Thompson Jack Dickey Dickey Company, Harry H. Potter Marguerite C. Potter Theodore Potter Kevin Potter v. Crestwood Golf Club, Incorporated Crestwood Partnership Claude McCain George Spruce McCain John Boyd Walter Bryant Dale Bryant, and C.W. Carter Carter's Pest Control South Carolina National Bank Martin, Thompson and Wilkinson Erwin Thompson Jack Dickey Dickey Company
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.