Stone v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Grant v. Arizona Public Service Co. (1982), 235 Cal. App. 3d 1220 - Las Palmas Associates v. Las Palmas Center Associates (1991)
2 federal appellate · 33 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 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · 20 Cal. 3d 578 - American Motorcycle Assn. v. Superior Court · 8 Cal. 3d 229 - Cobbs v. Grant · 25 Cal. 2d 486 - Ybarra v. Spangard · 33 Cal. 2d 80 - Summers v. Tice
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Personal attacks on the character or motives of the adverse party, his counsel or his witnesses are misconduct.”
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.