Rutledge v. Rutledge’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1988
13 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 83 Cal. App. 2d 478 - George v. Bekins Van & Storage Co. · Replogle v. Ray · 3 Cal. App. 2d 425 - California MacHinery & Supply Co. v. University City Syndicate, Inc. · 5 Cal. App. 2d 241 - Robinson v. Fidelity & Deposit Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is established that where an amended judgment is entered after proceedings on a motion for a new trial and pursuant to the provisions of section 662 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which second judgment is a material departure from the first one entered, an appeal lies solely from the second judgment, the first judgment thus being nonappealable. ” (Citing California Machinery etc. Co. v. University City Syn dicate, Inc., 3 Cal.App.2d 425, 428 [3] [ 39 P.2d 853 ]; Robinson v. Fidelity & Deposit Co., 5 Cal.App.2d 241, 242 [1] [42 P.2d 653]; Replogle v. Ray, 48 Cal.App.2d 291 , 293 et seq. [ 119 P.2d 980 ]; George v. Bekins Van & Storage Co., 83 Cal.App.2d 478, 480 [1] [ 189 P.2d 301 ].)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'CONNOR v. Skelton
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.