118 Cal. App. 332 - Forthmann v. Myer’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 1983
12 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 Sharon v. Sharon · Redfield v. Oakland Consolidated Street Railway Co. · Clanton v. Criteser · 86 Cal. App. 86 - People v. Richards · Estate of Schluter
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The `black letter' heading or title of a section of one of our codes when, as here, a part of the enactment, is a part of the section itself and, in construing the section, any limitation, placed upon general language within the section and expressed in such heading, must be given effect. To refuse to do so `would be to make the law, not to administer it.' ( Sharon v. Sharon, 75 Cal. 1, 16 ....) This limitation of the scope of a code section exists even though the language of the section is unambiguous.”
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.