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113 Cal. App. 3d 350 - Weeks v. Crow’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

37
cited by 37 later decisions
2
states following
October 2018
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 40 Cal. 3d 734 - Victoria v. Superior Court (1985), Cubbage v. Merchent (1984)

2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions

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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 14 Cal. 3d 473 - Freeman v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · 58 Cal. App. 3d 1 - Pacific Investment Co. v. Townsend · 276 Cal. App. 2d 240 - Leon Handbag Co. v. Local 213 of Leather, Luggage & Handbag Workers

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.

  1. “[t]he court should attempt to give effect to the parties' intentions, in light of the usual and ordinary meaning of the contractual language and the circumstances under which the agreement was made [citation].”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “'there is no policy compelling persons to accept arbitration of controversies which they have not agreed to arbitrate. ...'”
    3 later decisions 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.