Bustamante v. Sena’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 1993
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Candelaria · State Ex Rel. Clinton Realty Co. v. Scarborough · Martinez v. Mundy · United States v. Price
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a court cannot go behind [a patent] and look to the antecedent proceedings on which it is founded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gonzales v. Gonzales
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.