Buster v. Gale’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Brynna B. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services (2004), Balough v. Fairbanks North Star Borough (2000)
35 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 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Guin v. Ha · Japanese Electronic Products Antitrust Litigation v. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd · McQueeney v. Wilmington Trust Co. · Langdon v. Champion
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e will find that a trial court abused its discretion only "when we are left with a definite and firm conviction, after reviewing the whole record, that the trial court erred in its ruling.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Glover v. Glover · Bliss v. Bobich“a firm belief or conviction about the existence of a fact to be proved.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Clear and convincing evidence has been characterized as evidence that is greater than a preponderance, but less than proof beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.