Bohac v. West’s Empirical Analysis
85 F.3d 306 · 1996
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably State ex rel. V Companies v. Marshall (1998), Giannopoulos v. Brach & Brock Confections, Inc. (1997)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 United States v. Alaska · White v. Illinois · Dewees v. United States · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · City of Long Beach v. Southwest Aircraft Services, Inc.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f a motion under Rule 12(b)(6) is thus converted into a summary judgment motion, the amendment insures that both parties shall be given a reasonable opportunity to submit affidavits and extraneous proofs to avoid taking a party by surprise through the conversion of the motion into a motion for summary judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonable opportunity to present all material made pertinent”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.