Bonge v. Risinger’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
June 1997
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lake County Beverage Co. v. 21st Amendment, Inc. · Alvers v. State · In Re Wardship of Turrin · In re Estate of Nay
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the surviving spouse is incompetent, the court may order the guardian of his estate to elect for him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Covell v. Covell
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.