Bruner v. Petersen’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2020
22 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 Regents of the University of Michigan v. Ewing · Board of Curators of the University of Missouri v. Horowitz · Handley v. State, Department of Revenue · Earth Resources Co. of Alaska v. State, Department of Revenue · Peter Pan Seafoods, Inc. v. Stepanoff
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“independently review the merits of [the] administrative determination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[The economic incentive of $10,000 in wages, coupled with the request for punitive damages for an additional $10,000, demonstrates a sufficient economic incentive to bring the suit regardless of the possible public interest elements of his claim....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“unless it is such a substantial departure from accepted academic norms as to demonstrate that the person or committee responsible 'did not actually exercise professional judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.