Bentley v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2022
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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
Applies 30 U.S.C. § 28
Relies on Trossbach v. Trossbach · Dehahn v. Innes · General Insurance Co. of America v. Carnicero Dynasty Corp. · Hartman v. Potter · Corbett v. Derman Shoe Co.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Itlhe statute of frauds is a defense that can be waived by a failure to plead it as an affirmative defense, admitting its existence in the pleadings[,] or admitting at trial the existence and all essential terms of the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the statute of frauds is a defense that can be waived by ... admitting its existence in the pleadings, or admitting at trial the existence and all essential terms of the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“did not plainly indicate that the lease might be terminated for nonperformance”); Friedman on Leases § 16:2.2, -18 (”
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.