Bernstein v. Bodean’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
January 2000
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
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.
“[t]he recommendation shall not be binding upon the [trier of facts] ... but shall be accorded such weight as the [trier of facts] chooses to ascribe to it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gronne v. Abrams
How this case has been treated — in progress
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