Bensinger v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2004
8 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 Shepard v. Top Hat Land & Cattle Co. · Commercial Discount Co. v. Cowen · Laird v. Laird · Water Users Assn. v. Bldg. Assn. · Hollabaugh v. Kolbet
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the language of a contract is plain and unequivocal, that language is controlling.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dewey v. Dewey“sale of all or any part of the first refusal property”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dewey v. Dewey
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.