Wilson v. Kopp’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 1978 · most notably Irvin v. Padelford (1954), 231 Cal. App. 2d 388 - South Santa Clara Valley Water Conservation District v. Johnson (1964)
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 35 Cal. 2d 653 - Stanley v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · Wills v. JJ Newberry Co. · Kauffman v. De Mutiis · Germ v. City & County of San Francisco · 18 Cal. App. 2d 730 - Whitfield v. Debrincat
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * neither party is entitled to have the instructions framed in his particular language. As long as the instructions cover the issues involved and correctly and fully state the law, the fact that either party would prefer that they be otherwise expressed is immaterial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Talbot
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.