Bignell v. Wise Mechanical Contractors’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2016
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 Hernandez v. City of Los Angeles · Wien Air Alaska v. Arant · Haile v. Pan American World Airways, Inc. · Bignell v. Wise Mechanical Contractors · Wise Mechanical Contractors v. Bignell
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is properly raised by the pleadings or otherwise, is submitted for determination, and is determined.”
2 later decisions 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.