Livermore v. Waite’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
3 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2009 · most notably 52 Cal. 3d 336 - Raven v. Deukmejian (1990), 54 Cal. 3d 492 - Legislature v. Eu (1991)
3 district · 65 state decisions — followed in 24 states
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.
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An amendment “implies such an addition ox- change within the lines of the original instrument as will effect an improvement, or better carry out the purpose for which it was framed.” Livermore v. Waite, 102 Cal. 118 , 36 Pac. 426 , 25 L. R. A. 312 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex parte Dillon
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.