111 Cal. App. 458 - Cowan v. Tremble’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably State v. Coursey (1950), Beeler v. American Trust Co. (1946)
2 district · 27 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 Hoppin v. Munsey · Thompson v. Spray · Cavanaugh v. Casselman · Cederberg v. Robison · Harper v. Goldschmidt
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.
“Nor does this rule render the contract liable to the objection of a lack of mutuality, for, by bringing the suit the plaintiff binds himself to abide by the judgment of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ward v. Mattuschek
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.