Berkstresser v. Voight’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Nichols v. Nichols (1982), Hughes v. Walker (1967)
28 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 Smith v. Meadows · Heirich v. Howe · Luvaul v. Holmes · Martinez v. Martinez · State v. Trujillo
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When issues not raised by the pleadings are tried by express or implied consent of the parties, they shall be treated in all respects as if they had been raised in the pleadings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Biebelle v. Norero“held numerous times that to preserve a question for review[,] a litigant must invoke a ruling thereon”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.