Benson v. Benson’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2013
15 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 Machinery Rental, Inc. v. Herpel · Peterson v. Peterson · Milliken Research Corp. v. Dan River, Inc. · Federal Land Bank of St. Paul v. Lillehaugen · Spilovoy v. Spilovoy
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A review of the findings and recommendations may be ordered at any time by a district court judge and shall be ordered if a party files a written request for a review within three days after receiving the notice in Section 10(b). The request for review shall state the reasons for the review.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Interest of KS · Rebel v. Rebel“assign a referee to preside in any case or proceeding provided for in title 14, chapter 27-20, and chapter 28-25 pursuant to rules of the supreme court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“First, we must review, as a matter of law, the correctness of the district court's reversal, under the clearly erroneous standard, of any factual findings by the judicial referee. Second, if the district court's reversal of findings is upheld, we must then review the substitute or additional findings of the district court under the clearly erroneous standard of Rule 52(a), N.D.R.Civ.P.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re DQ
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.