Sack v. Tomlin’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Certified Fire Protection, Inc. v. Precision Construction, Inc. (2012), Howard v. Hughes (2018)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 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 Hensley v. Eckerhart · 18 Cal. 3d 660 - Marvin v. Marvin · 20 Cal. 3d 694 - Caito v. United California Bank · Vallera v. Vallera · The People v. Varel
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fractional shares held by tenants in common are usually equal and are presumed to be equal unless circumstances indicate otherwise.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in proportion to the amount contributed by each to the purchase price.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are not related and show no donative intent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.