120 Cal. App. 207 - Long v. Barbieri’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 1955
23 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 Rush v. Lagomarsino · Reaugh v. Cudahy Packing Co. · Mann v. Scott · Burgesser v. Bullock's · 92 Cal. App. 495 - Ching Wing v. Kishi
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It should be further noted that the trial court omitted to give any instruction whatsoever defining ‘proximate cause’, and the jury were thus left to their own varying conceptions, if any, as to what might constitute this always related and ever essential principle of the doctrines of negligence and contributory negligence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.