102 Cal. App. 2d 374 - Vallelunga v. Gomes’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 1986
17 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 2 Cal. App. 2d 600 - Union Bank & Trust Co. v. County of Los Angeles · Market Street Railway Co. v. Railroad Commission · Market Street Railway Co. v. Railroad Commission · Guardianship of Cornaz · Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America v. Federal Power Commission
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has the power and the responsibility of protecting the fund and of disposing of it in accordance with the applicable principles of law and equity for the protection of the litigants and the public whose interests are affected by the final disposition thereof. The court is said to be free, in the discharge of that duty and responsibility, to use broad discretion in the exercise of its powers so as to avoid an unlawful or unjust result.”
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.