BASF Corp. v. Symington’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2025
20 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 Roberts v. Florida · 112 Wash. 2d 216 - Young v. Key Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Sax v. Votteler · County of Stutsman v. State Historical Society of North Dakota · Osland v. Osland
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]nsane ... at the time the claim for relief accrues.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“to mean a person having an unsound mind or having a mental condition rendering that person incapable of comprehending legal rights. We agree with California that this is an appropriate and useful definition of the term”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]e interpret statutes in context and in relation to others on the same subject to give meaning to each without rendering one or the other useless.”
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.