Bugg v. Rutter’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1367
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Federated Department Stores, Inc. v. Moitie · Semtek International Inc. v. Lockheed Martin Corp. · Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, Inc. v. American Bar Ass'n · Bradshaw v. Daniel
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“); Rutter v. Bugg (Estate of Downs), 300 S.W.3d 242 (Mo.App.W.D.2009) (“Bugg III”
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.