In Re Scroggin’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably Peiser v. Mettler (1958), 47 Cal. 2d 140 - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Kings County Water District (1956)
27 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 29 Cal. 2d 200 - In Re Wells · 94 Cal. App. 2d 902 - Harlan v. Superior Court · 131 Cal. App. 41 - In Re Meyer · 126 Cal. App. 202 - Fuhrman v. American National Building & Loan Ass'n
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The word ‘substantial’ is a relative term, the meaning of which is to be gauged by all the circumstances surrounding the transaction in reference to which the expression has been used. It imports a considerable amount of value in opposition to that which is inconsequential or small. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In the instant matter, the finding of ability to comply with the court’s order was qualified by the phrase ‘ to a greater extent. ’ This is a relative phrase, and not subject to interpretation with any exactitude. A finding of ability to comply ‘to a greater extent’ with an order requiring payment of specified monthly amounts is not a finding of ability to pay any specific delinquent monthly installment and is so vague, indefinite and uncertain as to leave to conjecture the amount, if any, which the petitioner had the ability to pay and is not a sufficient finding of ability to comply with the court’s order to sustain the adjudication of contempt. [Citation.]””
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.