Corlett v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
37 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 2 Cal. 3d 557 - Denham v. Superior Court · 18 Cal. 3d 406 - Sanborn v. Chronicle Publishing Co. · 91 Cal. App. 3d 383 - Lopez v. Larson · Dunsmuir Masonic Temple v. Superior Court · City of Los Angeles v. Gleneagle Development Co.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`promote justice by preventing surprises through the revival of claims that have been allowed to slumber until evidence has been lost, memories have faded, and witnesses have disappeared.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether the interests of justice are best served by dismissal or trial of the case....”
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.