Bennett v. Weimar’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2020
12 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1746
Relies on McElyea v. Babbitt · Lew v. Kona Hospital · Adamson v. University of Alaska · Goldman, Antonetti, Ferraiuoli, Axtmayer & Hertell v. Medfit International, Inc. · State v. O'Neill Investigations, 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the matter is true. ''The certification shall state the date and place of execution, the fact that a notary public or other official empowered to administer oaths is unavailable, and the following: 'I certify under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we are not willing to equate an unsworn declaration with an affidavit for purposes of summary judgment proceedings. This is an additional safeguard which we wish to retain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Courts will not second-guess the actions of directors unless it appears that they are the result of fraud, dishonesty[,] or incompetence.”
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.