Bengtson v. Hines’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2005
10 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 Raheb v. Lemenski · Gormley v. Vartian · Lisi v. Marra · Fournier v. Ward · Wickes v. Kofman
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] pleading in a separate cause of action is merely a `quasi admission,' which is not conclusive in any sense. It is merely an inconsistency in a pleader's proof, which may be treated like any other admission or inconsistent statement for purposes of impeaching credibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is well settled that the findings of a trial judge sitting without a jury are entitled to great weight and will not be disturbed on appeal unless it appears from the record that he or she was clearly wrong or overlooked or misconceived material evidence.””
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.