Westbay v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably 81 Cal. App. 4th 725 - Rice v. Crow (2000), 59 Cal. App. 526 - Strupelle v. Strupelle (1922)
36 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 Merritt v. Campbell · Board of Commissioners (No. 2) v. Younger · Marsters v. Lash · Doll v. Good · Rosenthal v. McMann
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A retraxit occurred at common law when a plaintiff came into court in person and voluntarily renounced his suit or cause of action, and when this was done and a judgment was entered in favor of defendant the plaintiff’s cause of action was forever gone.””
1 later decision 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.