105 Cal. App. 37 - In Re Berman’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 1994 · most notably 15 Cal. 2d 731 - People v. Kynette (1940), Fross v. Wotton (1935)
1 federal appellate · 24 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 Brown v. Walker · Lion Bonding & Surety Co. v. Karatz · Mason v. United States · Johnson v. United States · In Re Fuller et al
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.
““. . . that the witness cannot arbitrarily refuse to testify without the existence in fact of a real danger, and that some discretion must rest in the court whereby it may prevent the mantle of protection from being turned into a cloak for fraud and trickery.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coleman v. Galvin
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.