Bigney v. Blanchard’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2024
21 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 Impala Platinum Ltd. v. Impala Sales (U.S.A.), Inc. · Metropolitan Mortgage Fund, Inc. v. Basiliko · 38 Ill. App. 2d 358 - Home Indemnity Co. v. Reynolds & Co. · 12 Ariz. App. 424 - Navajo Freight Lines, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · Beckwith v. Rossi
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have consistently held that the denial of a motion for summary judgment is not a proper subject for appellate review where, as here, the case has proceeded to a trial or hearing on the merits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Tjhis preliminary procedural device used exclusively to determine actual triability of the controversy has fulfilled its purpose and spent its force, and has become what is known in law as functus officio.”
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.