Goldberg v. List’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 1979 · most notably 24 Cal. App. 3d 131 - Security Pacific National Bank v. Goodman (1972), 96 Cal. App. 3d 591 - Hartford Financial Corp. v. Burns (1979)
37 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 Anglo-California Trust Co. v. Oakland Railways · Thompson v. Toland · Treadwell v. Davis · 124 Cal. App. 131 - Booth v. Peoples Finance & Thrift Co. · Harrington v. King
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.
““ First—The value of the property at the time of the conversion, with the interest from that time, or, an amount sufficient to indemnify the party injured for the loss which is the natural, reasonable and proximate result of the wrongful act complained of and which a proper degree of prudence on his part would not have averted; . . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Camp v. Ortega
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.